Pakistan has reopened the Torkham border crossing in northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province to facilitate the return of Afghan refugees to their home country, officials said Saturday.

Bilal Rao, deputy commissioner of Khyber district of the province, told the media that the border crossing resumed operations on Saturday morning to allow the repatriation of Afghan families who had been waiting on the Pakistani side for weeks.

He said hundreds of Afghan nationals had arrived at the immigration center, where documentation procedures were underway before allowing them to cross into Afghanistan.

The repatriation process had been suspended on Oct. 11 after clashes between Pakistan and Afghanistan erupted, prompting Islamabad to close all border crossings for trade and travel.

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