Torkham Border: ‘Stranded trucks causing losses’

Hundreds of cargo trucks stranded at Torkham border, Takhta Baig check post, causing huge financial losses to traders.

PESHAWAR: Hundreds of cargo trucks are stranded at Torkham border and Takhta Baig check post, causing huge financial losses to traders.

This was said by Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chamber of Commerce and Industry Chairman Ziaul Haq Sarhadi during a meeting of Frontier Customs Agents Group and Pak-Afghan transit traders held at the chamber on Friday.

The president asked participants to file written complaints so they could be forwarded to the government. He also suggested formation of a dry port trust.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 11^th, 2012.