Economics

Border Delays Risk Pakistan’s Trade Surplus With Afghanistan

  • Containers holding goods worth over $400 million delayed
  • Pakistan’s exports to Afghanistan have been declining
A man walks past Afghan’s trucks parked along a road near the closed Pakistan-Afghanistan border on March 16.Photographer: Abdul Majeed/AFP via Getty Images
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Pakistan’s trade with neighboring Afghanistan has been declining for years, but now delays in shipment clearance are threatening to undermine their bilateral commerce even further.