"The attacker drove the vehicle into a crowd watching a wrestling match and detonated a bomb," said Kandahar provincial Gov.

[4] In April 2010, three nephews of the former governor of Spin Boldak district, Hajji (or Haji[5]) Fazluddin Agha, aged 15, 13 and 12, were killed in a bomb attack.

The bomb was attached to a donkey which was led to the checkpoint in front of the former governor's home and detonated by remote control.

[8] It was at this border crossing on 15 July 2021, the Indian photo-journalist Danish Siddiqui was killed by the Taliban and his body mutilated [9] In 1891 the British extended the Indian Railways system (now Pakistan Railways) to the border town of Chaman via the Khojak Tunnel from Qilla Abdullah, from the east and thence south.

In July 2010, Pakistan and Afghanistan signed a Memorandum of understanding for going ahead with the laying of rail tracks between the two countries.