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Pakistan Allows 150 Stranded Afghan Trucks to Cross Wagah Border in Peace Gesture

By TRH News Desk

New Delhi, May 1, 2025 – In a subtle message seen as peace call, Pakistan permitted stranded India-bound Afghan trucks to cross the Wagah Border. The Pakistani Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement on Thursday said that approval was granted on appeal from Kabul.

Dawn in a report said that 150 Afghan trucks had been stranded after Pakistan banned trade relations with India. The trucks are carrying goods for India. “They have been allowed to cross the Wagah Border. This eases a weeks-long bottleneck, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement,” Sawn said in a report.

India and Pakistan have no trade relations since 2019 in the aftermath of the Pulwama terror attack. India had carried out surgical strikes against terror launch pads in the Pakistan occupied Kashmir after the Pulwama terror attack. Forty security personnel were killed in the Pulwama terror attack.

“The ministry has the honour to inform that in view of the brotherly relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan, the government has decided to permit stranded Afghan trucks, carrying goods in transit to India,” Dawn quoted from the statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The statement also stated that the trucks had “entered Pakistan before April 25, 2025, to cross Wagah Border for delivering the goods”.

Pakistan has assured to consider any other appeal of Kabul for stranded trucks of Pakistan to transit to India. The gesture has come within hours of US Secretary of the State Marco Rubio speaking to Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. Rubio also spoke to Union Minister for External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar.

Rubio’s calls to both India and Pakistan came amid rising global concerns over escalating tension between the two South Asian neighbours. It was not immediately known what goods the Afghanistan trucks are carrying.

But India’s relations with Afghanistan eased in recent months. Indian officially established contacts with the Taliban regime in Kabul.

Pakistan’s gesture has also come at a time when Islamabad’s relations with Kabul are strained amid border skirmishes. The Taliban refuse to recognise the Duran Line that demarcates the border between the two Islamic nations.

India in the aftermath of the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack that killed 28 civilians has diplomatically downgraded relations with Pakistan. India put the Indus Water Treaty in abeyance along with downsizing the strength of the High Commissions. India also cancelled certain classes of Visas which had been issued to the Pakistani nationals.

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