JALALABAD - After a three-month stalemate, Pakistan has reopened the Peshawar-Torkham highway to NATO supplies into Afghanistan, officials said on Sunday.

Containers used for ferrying goods for NATO forces were seen crossing the Torkham border into Afghanistan on Sunday after the Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf, the ruling party in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, decided to unblock the key supply route.

The decision to reopen the road comes in the light of the Peshawar High Court orders, which had termed the blockade as illegal

Officials said several containers carrying supplies for NATO forces had arrived at the border crossing from Karachi following a three-month suspension.

A customs official on this side of the border, Eng. Qasim, told Pajhwok Afghan News, five containers with NATO supplies had entered Afghanistan territory after their clearance.

The NATO supply line was blocked in November when the PTI zealots launched a serious of sit-ins against a US drone strike that killed several key Taliban commanders in Hangu district. (Pajhwok)