Pakistan has donated 35 trucks to Afghanistan as a symbolic gesture of goodwill and eternal peace between the two brotherly neighboring countries, an official statement said. The handing over ceremony was performed at Pak-Afghan border near Torkhem. Deputy Chief of Protocol of Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Syed Zulfiqar Ali Shah presented keys of the donated trucks to Second Secretary of the Afghan Consulate Peshawar Haji Mehraj. Earlier, representatives of Pakistan and Afghanistan signed documents at Torkhem. Pakistan had announced a donation of 200 trucks to Afghanistan. Of them, 140 have been so far handed over to Afghanistan. Earlier, 105 trucks were given to Afghanistan in three batches. Pakistan would also donate 100 buses to Afghanistan in near future, the statement said. The Afghan envoy thanked Pakistan for the assistance to Afghan brethren and expressed the hope that the economic cooperation of Pakistan to Afghanistan would continue in future.
