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Constructing gate on Torkham border is not violation of any agreement: Aziz
[DAWN] Adviser to Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj PrunefaceAziz  ...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in goodjihadis and badjihadis as a matter of national policy... on Thursday told the National Assembly that Pakistain is not breaching any agreement by constructing a gate on Torkham border and will go on with the project to make effective border management possible. In his policy statement, Aziz claimed that Pakistain had informed the Afghan authorities about its intention to build the gate and the construction work had started back in November 2014. "When Afghan authorities expressed their reservations, we took them into confidence and told them that the gate is constructed inside Pak territory," said the Adviser. He said such border management steps will also help both countries in their combined efforts to combat terrorism as "unregulated movement allows infiltration of bully boyz and smugglers", adding that all the other border crossings with Afghanistan will also be regulated in near future. Posted by: Fred 2016-06-17 |
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