PESHAWAR: The Pakistan Flour Mills Association (PEMA) demanded from the government to open the Torkham gate as hundreds of loaded trucks, bounded for Afghanistan are stranded and flour worth millions of rupees could have spoiled. The meeting of the PEMA executive body held on Monday and strongly come up with demands of opening of Torkham gate for smooth flow of business articles and goods to Afghanistan. Speaking to body of the PEMA Chairman Haji Muhammad Yousuf said that government should open the gate as soon as possible and let the loaded trucks to cross the border otherwise its will spoil. He said that government should take the issue up and resolves it on immediate ground and also release the amount of repeat, promised money to the flour owners by the government. Haji Yousuf said that government has already under the burden of less export on the other hand it doesn’t allow to manage its border system to promote exports and country goods and merchandise. He said that uncertain situation at the Torkham border causing the business community at worse but the government have turn deaf year towards import and export activities at the country and Durand line. Government should negotiate with Afghanistan and take advantage of the market of the across the border, adding that flour industries will take down its business if the government did not resolve Torkham gate issue he maintained.