{"id":78032,"date":"2018-04-27T08:11:13","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T08:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/kabul-signs-a-mou-with-islamabad-for-the-convenience-of-cross-border-travelers-at-torkham\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T10:43:23","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T10:43:23","slug":"kabul-signs-a-mou-with-islamabad-for-the-convenience-of-cross-border-travelers-at-torkham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/kabul-signs-a-mou-with-islamabad-for-the-convenience-of-cross-border-travelers-at-torkham\/","title":{"rendered":"Kabul signs a MoU with Islamabad for the convenience of cross-border travelers at Torkham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"321\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2018\/4- Apr\/27\/TorKham.jpg\" width=\"561\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW): An agreement was reached between Afghan and Pakistani officials on the convenience of cross-border travellers through Torkham Pass.<\/p>\n<p>The two sides promised to ease the process for passengers going to Pakistan through Torkham border and increase cooperation between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>Torkham Pass has always had a direct effect on the Kabul-Islamabad relations, and Pakistan has occasionally closed this border, whenever the tension arose.<\/p>\n<p>So far, the details of the agreement have not been disclosed as to what facilities will be provided to the passengers crossing the border into Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of travellers use Torkham gate on daily basis to go to Pakistan; however, each passenger has to wait in line for hours to get the visa verified and the entry stamped on their passports.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW): An agreement was reached between Afghan and Pakistani officials on the convenience of cross-border travellers through Torkham Pass. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-78032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}