...mindless ferocity in a turban...
's agreement to reopen it, The News reported Friday.
Taliban authorities closed Torkham, the main point of transit for travellers and goods between Pakistain and landlocked Afghanistan.
The Afghan border security forces also opened fire and injured a Pak soldier at the Ayub checkpoint, located at the hilltop near the border.
A large number of passengers moved to Torkham from Pakistain and Afghanistan after they heard about the reopening of the border crossing. Long queues of passengers were seen on both sides of the border waiting outside the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) and customs offices to get their travel documents cleared but they were not allowed to proceed to their destinations after the hours-long wait.
An official, on the condition of anonymity, said that the pressure of passengers and loaded trucks had gradually increased in the past week. He said they were looking to high-ups to formally notify them of the reopening of the border.
Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, bullets
whapped!around Butch as he tried to tie his scarf around his shoulder as a tourniquet......
members of the Tanzeem-e-Naujawanan Qabail arranged cooked food for passengers who had been stranded in Landikotal and Torkham due to the closure of the border. Most of the Afghan citizens were children and women.
Nazia Gul, 45, told The News that she had come to Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire...from Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
with her son and husband some two weeks ago. She said her son Hasrat, 10, was sick and they had admitted him to a hospital in Peshawar.
The woman said they had been waiting for four days with her ailing son and husband in Landikotal. She urged Pakistain to allow them to return to their native country as soon as possible. Several Afghan families travelled to the Torkham border but returned to Peshawar and Landikotal to stay safe due to the cold weather at Torkham.