KABUL: Taliban said that they have arrested four border guards involved in removing Pakistan’s flag from trucks carrying humanitarian aid along the Torkham border in Afghanistan.
The incident happened on Sunday on the Afghan side when 17 trucks laden with edible items crossed into the neighbouring country through the Torkham border.
Days later, a viral video had surfaced a day earlier showing Taliban fighters, who are deputed at the border crossing, removing a flag hoisted on the side of a parked aid truck sent by Pakistan.
Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid in a statement said that the entire cabinet of the Islamic Emirate had expressed regret over the incident.
Mujahid extended an apology saying the incident must have hurt the neigbouring country and they desired good ties with Pakistan. He said that the officials involved in the incident had been arrested and disarmed and will bear the full weight of the law.
Pakistan had donated food items loaded in 17 container trucks on humanitarian grounds to the newly-formed Taliban government in Afghanistan.
Speaking on the occasion, Pak-Afghan Cooperation Forum Chairman Habibullah Khan had said that the goodwill gesture from Pakistan was made at a time when the war-stricken and impoverished people of Afghanistan direly needed such assistance.
Taliban foot soldiers in this video removing Pakistan’s flags from trucks carrying aid supplies for Afghanistan #Taliban pic.twitter.com/YelHBHxNYL
— Murtaza Ali Shah (@MurtazaViews) September 21, 2021
