Pakistan to speed up NATO supply transit

Pakistan is doubling the capacity for NATO trucks at a key border crossing, officials said on Monday, to speed up processing for an expected influx of supplies for troops in Afghanistan.

Customs officials at Torkham border crossing in the country's northwest told AFP that work had begun to expand dedicated parking space for NATO containers.

"After expansion the parking capacity for NATO trucks will be doubled," Obaidullah Khan, a Customs official at Torkham, the closest border crossing to Kabul, told AFP. "Prior to the closure the terminal had a parking capacity of 250 vehicles and now we are expanding it to 500."