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| Pakistan seals border with Afghanistan |
| 2009-12-08 |
| Pakistani authorities have sealed their border with neighboring Afghanistan, after reports suggesting that the Taliban militants are fleeing into country's tribal areas. "Border security forces in Killa Saifullah of south western Balochsitan province have sealed the Pak-Afghan border in order to halt illegal entry of people into Pakistan from Afghanistan," an interior ministry official told Press TV correspondent in Islamabad on Monday. The official said the border was sealed amid allegations that the Taliban leaders travel across borders to find shelter in Pakistan's tribal areas. Frontier Corps troops have been deployed near the Pak-Afghan border. The travelers have been required to show legal travel documents, including passports and visas to enter Pakistan from neighboring Afghanistan. In 2007, Pakistan fenced a part of its 2,500-kilometer-long border with Afghanistan to prevent incursions by militants. However, Afghanistan has opposed fencing the border because of a long-standing territorial dispute with Pakistan. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 obviously the pakis are incapable of sealing the entire border, esp in mountainous Waziristan. I read this as just meaning they will seal the border in the Baluchistan area, which is close to Helmand where there is now a coalition offensive. Perhaps not even all of baluchistan, but just the mainly Pashtun area near Quetta. |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2009-12-08 15:32 |
| #4 HOW STUPID DO YOU THINK WE ARE? Rhetorical question, but this really is beyond belief. Not only is the terrain unforgiving and they were forewarned of the offensive, Binny is stateless, without a passport to show at a "fenced" checkpoint. This area could be carpet bombed with nukes and no one would ever know in a million years! And we keep shoveling money we don't have into this worthless pit. |
| Posted by: Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2009-12-08 10:40 |
| #3 As is the Social Security "Trust" Fund. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-12-08 07:05 |
| #2 Hey, the US/Mexican border is sealed too! |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2009-12-08 06:56 |
| #1 The Afghan/Pakistan Border is "sealed"? It is 2,500 miles long through some of the roughest terrain on the face of the Earth. Right up there with the Hindu Kush and the Karakorum back door to China and places planes and helicopters cant even fly, rocky gorges and rocky mountain passes where a horse, or a g8damn donkey cant even go? And they are telling us it is "sealed"..... So now we are being assured it is "sealed". WHO is telling us it is "sealed"? HOW STUPID DO YOU THINK WE ARE? PURE BULLSH*T. In your paki dreams. |
| Posted by: Angleton9 2009-12-08 05:21 |