Khan Jan Alkozai, the deputy head of the Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI), said in a statement issued on Sunday that the transit containers have been blocked for “more than 17 days in the port city of Karachi.”
Pakistan closed the Torkham crossing on its border with Afghanistan following harassment of a group of Pakistani workers by Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers on December 28, 2012.
Alkozai also stated that problems facing Afghan merchants have increased over the past months despite the Transit Trade Agreement signed by Kabul and Islamabad in 2010.
The blocked shipment also includes “hundreds of food containers,” Alkozai said.
On January 2, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf said Islamabad would release the containers within ten days.
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