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Torkham border crossing ( Urdu, Persian, and Pashto: تورخم Tūrkham) is a major border crossing between the Pakistani city of Torkham and Afghanistan, located along the Grand Trunk Road on the international border between the two countries. It connects Nangarhar province of Afghanistan with Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
Torkham ( Pashto: تورخم, romanized: torxam; Urdu: طورخم) is a Pakistani town in Khyber District (until 2018 the Khyber Agency of the now defunct FATA ), that is the location of the Torkham Border Crossing with Afghanistan just to the west of the historic Khyber Pass . Torkham lies at the end of the N-5 National Highway.
The Durand Line ( Pashto: د ډیورنډ کرښه; Urdu: ڈیورنڈ لائن; Dari: خط دیورند ), also known as the Afghanistan–Pakistan border, is a 2,640-kilometre (1,640 mi) international border between Afghanistan and Pakistan in South Asia. [ 1][ a] The western end runs to the border with Iran and the eastern end to the border ...
13–16 June 2016 – Pakistan and Afghan military clashed along the Torkham border for a period of three days. [56] [57] One Pakistan army Major, Ali Jawad Changezi, was injured in the clashes along Torkham border and later died in a hospital in Peshawar on 14 June. Four Pakistani border guards and nine civilians were also injured in the ...
Geography of Afghanistan. Afghanistan is a landlocked mountainous country located on the Iranian Plateau, [ 6 ] at the crossroads of Central Asia [ 7 ][ 8 ] and South Asia. [ 9 ][ 10 ] The country is the 40th largest in the world in size. Kabul is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan, located in the Kabul Province.
Torkham, a key border crossing, is located in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Pakistani, Afghan Taliban forces trade fire at Torkham border crossing, killing 3 Afghan ...
This is a list of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) installations in Afghanistan used during the War in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2021. This list encompasses installations used by the International Security Assistance Force from 2001 to 2014 and then by the Resolute Support Mission after 2014. Included are airbases, forward operating ...
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