Pakistan reopens NATO supply route

Pakistan has reopened a key border crossing used by NATO forces to supply troops in Afghanistan, officials have said. The Torkham crossing was operating again on Sunday, 11 days after it was closed amid Pakistani anger over a cross-border US helicopter raid that killed two Pakistani soldiers in the country's northwest. "The first convoy of more than a dozen vehicles left for Afghanistan this afternoon," Mohammad Nawaz, a customs official, told the AFP news agency. He said that more vehicles loaded with supplies for NATO and US troops were ready to set off in the coming hours. "I am very happy that our difficult days have finally ended and we are through now," Khan Rehman, a driver, told The Associated Press news agency before driving the first lorry into Afghanistan shortly after noon. "I am thankful to the government of Pakistan for ending our hardship."