Pakistan closes Torkham border

By Ashrafuddin Pirzada
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January 30, 2020

LANDIKOTAL: Pakistan closed its border with Afghanistan for security reasons after two mortar shells fired from Afghanistan landed in Pakistani border town of Torkham, sources said on Wednesday. The sources said that two mortar shells were fired early in the morning from the hilly area in Afghanistan near the border. The mortars landed in Torkham in Pakistan causing partial damage to a truck parked there. No casualty was, however, reported.