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Pakistan army completes 90% fencing work along Afghan border
[AlAhram] Pakistain's military said Tuesday it has completed 90% of a fence being constructed along the border with Afghanistan, vowing to complete the project this summer.Pakistain started the fence along the 2,611-kilometer (1,622-mile) border with Afghanistan _ known as the Durand Line _ in 2017 when hard boyz repeatedly launched cross-border attacks on Pak posts. On Tuesday, a Pak military official, Col. Rizwan Nazir, told a group of foreign journalists at the key Torkham border crossing that the remaining 10% of the fence at the western border will be complete this year. The border barrier between the two countries consists of two sets of chain-link fences separated by a 2-meter (6.5-foot) space that has been filled with concertina wire coils. The double fence is about 4 meters (13 feet) high. The military has installed surveillance cameras to check any movement along the border. Afghanistan has never recognized the mostly non-existent border that runs through the Pashtun heartland, diluting the power of Afghanistan's largest ethnic group on both sides. Pakistain and Afghanistan often accuse each other of turning a blind eye to Islamic hard boyz operating along the frontier. On Tuesday, Pak soldiers were seen patrolling one of the most dangerous regions in the county, where Pak Taliban  ...Arabic for students... and other local and foreign hard boyz have a presence. Posted by: trailing wife 2021-08-04 |
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