NATO trucks cross border after Pakistan lifts blockade
- Published: 3 Jul 2012 at 23.48
- Online news: Asia
The first trucks supplying NATO troops in Afghanistan crossed the border from Pakistan on Thursday after Islamabad ended a seven-month blockade.
Pakistani soldiers check the documents of a first container truck carrying NATO supplies prior to crossing the border into Afghanistan at the border town of Chaman.
Pakistan closed overland routes for NATO convoys into its war-torn neighbour after a botched US air raid in November killed 24 Pakistani soldiers at a border post, plunging ties between the "war on terror" allies to a new low.
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