ISLAMABAD, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- Pakistan and Afghanistan on Wednesday agreed to reopen one of its busiest border crossings after 14 days of closure that caused huge financial losses to traders and badly affected the cross-border movement, officials said.
Pakistan shut the Chaman border in southwestern Balochistan Province on Aug. 18 after some demonstrators torched a Pakistani flag at the Afghan border town of Spinboldak.
Security officials of the two sides had been involved in a series of meetings and agreed to reopen the border on Thursday, spokesman for the Pakistani paramilitary force Frontier Corps Khan Wasay said on the phone from Quetta.
"I can confirm that the Pakistani and Afghan officials have agreed on the reopening of the border on Thursday," the spokesman told Xinhua.
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