There has been an unprecedented reduction in trade deals between Afghanistan and Pakistan since the relations hit an all time low in mid-April this year.

Officials in Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Industries (ACCI) have said the trade deals have been affected by up to 50% during the recent months.

A spokesman for ACCI Seyamuddin Pasarle has said the main reason behind an unprecedented reduction in trade deals and investments has been the recent political upheavals.

He said the trade deals between the two countries in the past were 95% but it has reduced recently.

The remark by ACCI officials come as reports emerged earlier this month suggesting that the medical business in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan suffered heavily following the recent upheavals in political relations between Kabul and Islamabad.

“Since the Torkham incident, we were getting less than 10 percent of the usual number of Afghan patients during Ramazan.

This was much less even for the month of Ramazan when there is a general drop of patients by 50 percent,” a doctor at a private hospital in Peshawar said.

Another doctor in Rahman Medical Institute (RMI) has said the number of patients had gone drown drastically during the last couple of months, especially since the violent clashes at Torkham.

The reduced number of Afghan patients visiting the city for treatment also affected the other trades, including the sale of medicines and occupancy at guesthouses and the revenues of transport services.

Tensions between Kabul and Islamabad increased following a series of deadly attacks in Afghanistan and recent clash between Afghan and Pakistani forces in Torkham.

Clashes between the Afghan border guards and Pakistani forces erupted after the Pakistani side started work on the construction of a gate along the Durand Line.

Afghanistan condemned the move by Pakistan and called it a unilateral act insisting that any installation along the zero line of the Durand must be mutually agreed before starting work on it.

In the meantime the Afghan officials criticize Pakistan for remaining reckless to act against the leadership councils of the Taliban and the notorious Haqqani terrorist network based in Peshawar and Quetta cities of Pakistan from where they plan and coordinate major attacks in Afghanistan.