Pakistan says Wagah border crossing open for traders from Afghanistan

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has said it has not stopped Afghan traders from moving their goods to India through Wagah border crossing, days after President Ashraf Ghani

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has said it has not stopped Afghan traders from moving their goods to India through Wagah border crossing, days after President Ashraf Ghani warned that Afghanistan would stop transit facility to Central Asia for Pakistani traders. Ghani warned of stopping the transit for Pakistan if Afghan businessmen were not allowed to trade with India through Wagah. Reacting to his statement, Foreign Office spokesman Nafees Zakaria said that under a pact with Afghanistan, India cannot send its goods to Afghanistan through Pakistan but Afghanistan can sell goods to India via Pakistan. “Pakistan is fulfilling its commitment to the Afghan people by providing them a trade transit facility,” he told BBC.

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