Transported goods arrive to Torkham from the port city of Karachi in Sindh province.

It lies on the most important supply route for US-led NATO forces in Afghanistan.

Pakistan's government sometimes block supplies due to the American use of drone strikes in Pakistan,[1][2] and for security reasons after firing from the Afghan side against Pakistani construction workers building a border fence.

[3] By the end of 2018, Pakistan had completed a 486 kilometer portion of the border fence around Torkham to seal the porous border in order to curb arms smuggling, illegal migration, and drug trafficking.

Torkham was the first point of entry into Pakistan for many of the 3.5 million Afghans who fled the Soviet invasion as refugees.