CHAMAN: Pak-Afghan border remained closed for the sixth consecutive day in the town of Chaman , here on Tuesday. The border was closed after Afghan demonstrators had burnt Pakistan National Flag on last Thursday. “We cannot tolerate slogans against our country and burning our national flag,” a Pakistani official deployed at border gate noted. Thousands of people and containers-mounted trailers stood at the Pak-Afghan border in Chaman while NATO supplies and cross-border trade was also suspended. People have been waiting for the border to open. The Pak-Afghan border gate was closed by the officials when local tribesmen of Chaman took out a rally and torched an effigy of Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, as a protest against his statements on the Balochistan situation. Later, Afghan border forces also arranged a demonstration along the border in Afghanistan. The demonstrators on Afghan side burnt Pakistani flag and raised slogans against Pakistan. Official sources said that high-ups of border forces of the two countries were in touch with each other and the border would be opened after directives received from the government.
