This came a week after an Afghan gunman had martyred a Pak security guard there, forcing a closure of the crossing.
The decision to reopen the Chaman border crossing — also known as Friendship Gate — was taken in a meeting between Pak and Afghan authorities over the weekend.
The crossing was closed on November 13 when a Pak soldier posted at the border was fired upon.
Pakistain contacted the Afghan side and urged them to stop such incidents in future as this could harm the bilateral ties, officials told The Nation.
The Chaman border, situated nearly 120 kilometres to Quetta, is one of the busiest border crossings between the two countries and is used by thousands of people every day.
Earlier, the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...government in Afghanistan condemned the incident and ordered the formation of a fact-finding committee to investigate it.
Taliban front man Zabihullah Mujahid rejected the allegations reported in media that the attacker was a member of the Afghan border forces.
According to the officials, Pakistain told Afghan counterparts that the borders must be made more secure.
"The Afghan side has pledged to ensure more security to stop such incidents in the future," said one official.
On its part, Pakistain has recently removed tariffs and eased visa rules to facilitate trade activities with the conflict-torn country where the United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
warns millions of Afghans face acute food shortages.
Islamabad has also dramatically increased Afghan coal imports since the Taliban returned to power, tilting the annual trade balance in favour of Kabul for the first time in the history of bilateral trade.
Pakistain maintains it has no option but to help Afghanistan achieve stability to deter an influx of Afghan refugees and a resurgence of cross-border terrorism.
However,
Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried...
Foreign Minister Bilawal
BabyBhutto Zardari
...Pak dynastic politician, son of Benazir Bhutto and grandon of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. As far as is known, Bilawal has no particular talents other than being pretty and being able to memorize political slogans, but he had the good luck to be born into the right family and he hasn't been assassinated yet...
has reiterated that Islamabad would not formally recognize the Taliban government without global consensus.