Pakistan closes Chaman border with Afghanistan

Islamabad: Pakistan has closed its Chaman border with Afghanistan citing security concerns.
 “We want peace and stability in Afghanistan. We have put up a fence on the border,” the Pakistan Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid said, as quoted by The Express Tribune. Rashid added that “due to some concerns” the border at Chaman was being closed temporarily.
 “However, we will not allow chaos to spread. There are no Americans left in Pakistan. Those who came have left”, he said.
Pedestrian traffic through Pakistan’s south-western Chaman border crossing has swiftly increased after the Taliban’s hostile takeover of Afghanistan over the last few weeks.
“About 18,000 people are now crossing the border on a daily basis,” Hameed Ullah, the head of the COVID-19 Health team at the Chaman Border told CNN last month.
Pakistan believes that the incoming “government” in Afghanistan would take “effective” measures against the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the director-general of the media wing of the country’s military said.