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A tragic road accident in eastern Afghanistan claimed at least 22 lives, including 10 children and five women, as a truck carrying returning refugees overturned. Officials reported around 36 others injured. The incident, attributed to the driver reportedly falling asleep, highlights the perilous journeys of Afghans returning from Pakistan and Iran amidst increased expulsions.

A year after the Pahalgam incident, India-Pakistan relations remain strained, with the Punjab international border largely shut. Restrictions have halted trade, suspended customary interactions, and altered the Attari retreat ceremony, despite Pakistan's global mediation role. The Kartarpur Corridor also remains closed, impacting religious travel.

Umar Iqbal, from Pulwama district, said he entered Iran on a 12-day visa after his route through the region began to close around him in Iraq.

Cross-border traders, especially those importing coal and dry fruits from Afghanistan, have suffered a setback after truck drivers from the strife-torn nation refused to go to India after one of their colleagues, a father of three, was arrested in India over the seizure of heroin from his

Following the first political contact between India and the Taliban, India approved the entry of 160 afghan trucks carrying dry fruits and nuts through the Attari border as a special gesture. Despite not formally recognizing the Kabul regime, India remains Afghanistan's largest export market in South Asia, with trade valued at $1 billion.

Pakistan has turned down an Afghan proposal for a throughway to India via Wagah border, showing that mutual distrust was holding back progress on key trade talks between the two neighbours.

The committee constituted for the installation of Full Body Truck Scanner (FBTS) and Radiation Detection Equipment (RDE) at Integrated Check Post (ICP) at Attari land border has approached the Land Port Authority of India (LPAI) for replacing the ‘scrapped’ FBTS with superior quality ones to keep a tab on attempts of smuggling of arms, ammunition and narcotic.

The Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) has expressed the hope that the US initiated talks on Afghanistan and Pakistan transit trade could give new optimism to Indian businessmen.

The border crossing between Pakistan and Afghanistan, Chaman opened on Tuesday after nearly a month, allowing goods transport and citizens of both countries to cross after clearance from security and customs officials, local media reported. The Chaman crossing is a major transit point for truckers moving fruit exports from the southern Afghan city of Kandahar.

Tired of numerous rounds of peace dialogues till now, most Kashmiris preferred to stay silent on the Centre’s decision to appoint former Intelligence Bureau chief Dineshwar Sharma as its interlocutor to carry out a sustained dialogue with all sections of Kashmiri society to restore peace in the state.

The normal trade and movement of people between Pakistan and Afghanistan fully resumed on Saturday after the two sides reopened a key border crossing that was shut nearly a week ago by Afghanistan's Taliban rulers, stranding people and thousands of trucks carrying food and essential items.