The recent climbing in hostilities between Pakistan and India has left Afghanistan truckers in a disaster.
The central leader of the Chamber of Commerce and Joint Industry of PAK-FGHAN (PAJCCI) said on Saturday that India has not allowed Afghan trucks to transport products to cross the border with Wagah.
While, he added that Pakistan has also not allowed vehicles to transport articles imported from India under the Transit Agreement to enter Afghanistan through the border points of Torkham and Chaman.
Earlier this week, Pakistan allowed 150 stranded Afghan trucks that transported products for India to cross the border, relieveing a one -week bottleneck. The movements arrived almost a week after Pakistan closed their borders for any trade with India, even towards or from a third country, in response to New Delhi measures after a deadly attack in occupied back. India, without proof, implicit cross bonds, which Pakistan denied and sought a neutral probe.
Islamabad decided to stop trade with New Delhi, even to and from any third country through Pakistan, during the National Security Committee meeting on April 24.
Talking with Dawn.com Today, the leader of Pajcci, Khan Jan Alokozay, confirmed that although Pakistan gave permission, India has not allowed the trucks to cross the border with Wagah.
“A total of 150 trucks had entered Pakistan and they were supposed to proceed to Wagah, but they had been stranded after April 25.”
“These trucks transport dry fruits, fresh fruits and vegetables. First, Pakistan had stopped these vehicles, and now India is not giving permission,” Alokozay said from Kabul.
He said that Pakistan has also stopped those Afghan commercial vehicles that carry articles imported from India.
“Around 1,500 containers arrived at the Karachi ports from India. Some of the products were loaded and the containers have arrived in Torkham and Chaman. Pakistan has stopped those vehicles.”
He said that the articles detained were transit products from India, and wanted to take them to Kabul.
“They have been arrested and that causes us losses,” he said.
“It is sad that this problem prevails and has not yet been resolved. We are making efforts to solve it.”
An Afghan official in Kabul said that, as Pakistan, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of India, in a letter, has asked the border authorities to facilitate the entry of Afghan trucks into India.
Despite the permission of Islamabad and New Delhi, Afghan commercial trucks have not yet been allowed to enter India through Pakistan since the Attari-Wagah border, the official added.
Meanwhile, the Afghan embassy in Islamabad, citing a merchant, said that Wagah and Chaman customs did not allow vehicles to enter Afghanistan, saying that they had not yet received instructions.
“They said that neither India has given them a green signal nor Pakistan has officially transmitted them,” said the merchant in an audio clip sent to their representatives.
The letter issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan dated April 30 that said: “The Ministry has the honor of informing that, in view of the fraternal relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan, the Pakistan government has decided to allow male Afghan trucks, carrying goods in transit to India, which entered Pakistan before April 25, 2025, to cross the border of the border of Wagah to deliver the goods of the “” “” “” “” “” “” “” “” “” “” “” “” “”. “” “” “” “” “” “” “” “” “. “” “” “” “” “” “” “”.
The Afghan Embassy in Islamabad had sent a note to Islamabad to allow the Afghan trucks stranded in Pakistan to enter India after it closed the Wagah border and suspended all the trade, including traffic, with the neighboring country.
Pakistan allowed Afghan trucks to cross the border with Wagah to deliver goods in India, but they were not allowed to advance beyond the Indian authorities.
According to the Transit Agreement of Afghanistan-Pakistan (APTTA), the Afghanistan without a coast can use the Karachi and Gwadar ports for imports and exports.
Pakistan has been facilitating Afghan traffic through its ports under the APTTA signed in 1965 and reviewed in 2010.
The agreement expired in 2021, and both parties have now agreed to sign an agreement reviewed soon.
