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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan has reopened an important border pass to NATO convoys, 10 days after enacting a blockade that strained relations with the United States and was followed by violent attacks on supply trucks stranded inside Pakistan.
In a brief statement issued Saturday by the Foreign Ministry, Pakistan said it had lifted the closure of the Torkham border crossing with immediate effect, after “assessing the security situation.”
Authorities on both sides of the frontier with Afghanistan were coordinating to “ensure smooth resumption of the supply traffic,” the statement said.
A spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Rick Snelsire, said officials were “pleased by the development.”
