INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Pakistan&s Sarhad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) has said that daily truck clearances at Torkham crossing have declined from
400-500 to 5-10.SCCI President Fazal Muqeem Khan said this at the signing ceremony of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the
Pakistan-Afghanistan Joint Chamber of Commerce and Industry to promote bilateral trade and cooperation.He said the volume of trade between
Pakistan and Afghanistan had fallen from $3 billion to $1 billion annually.Fazal Muqeem also highlighted the adverse impact of the 2%
Infrastructure Development Cess (IDC) imposed by the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government on trade and transit.The post Daily truck clearances at
Torkham drop from 400-500 to 5-10 first appeared on Ariana News.
