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This is chicken wire:
Who is going to need a tunnel?
You can probably bend that with your hands.
Afghanistan opposes Pakistan plan for chicken-wire border fence to keep out militants (PHOTOS)
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This is chicken wire:
Who is going to need a tunnel?
You can probably bend that with your hands.
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The only time when an Afgan ruler ever controlled areas on the east of Af-Pak border was when Ahmad shah abdali was on the throne. No Afghan has ever controlled these areas since.
Afghanistan has no historic,legal or moral reason to claim these areas.
The wire fencing isn't to actually stop infiltration. It is to know when and from where infiltration happened. A bent or cut chicken fence will give it away and then search parties can be sent in that area.This is chicken wire:
Who is going to need a tunnel?
You can probably bend that with your hands.
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American puppet and Zardari era Ambassador - Hussain Haqqani is also opposing fencing of border.
Does this not tells the tail, who is at the background!
In reality Afghans are addicted to heroin and foreigners sitting in Kabul are acting as Afghans!
US has been amassing fighters from Syria and Iraq in to Afghanistan and planning another TTP like assault.
They are just waiting for a conducive time, i.e. election of another Zardari.
Does this not tells the tail, who is at the background!
In reality Afghans are addicted to heroin and foreigners sitting in Kabul are acting as Afghans!
US has been amassing fighters from Syria and Iraq in to Afghanistan and planning another TTP like assault.
They are just waiting for a conducive time, i.e. election of another Zardari.
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the bastard haqqani trying to be Churchill calling it Iron Curtain. Mother F#cker then what is Trump's wall on Mexican border. 
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It will take another 2 years to fence the complete Pak-Afghan border !Afghanistan opposes Pakistan plan for chicken-wire border fence to keep out militants (PHOTOS)
Pakistan
- Pakistan plans to fence up most of the 2,500 km (1,500 mile) frontier despite Kabul’s protests
- Pakistan’s military estimates that it will need about Rs56 billion ($532 million) for the project
- Pak army has so far fenced off about 43 km of the frontier, starting with the most violence-prone areas in FATA
by Muhammad Irfan | Published on October 19, 2017 (Edited October 19, 2017)
RAWALPINDI – Pakistan is betting that a pair of nine-foot chicken wire fences topped with barbed wire will stop incursions by militants from Afghanistan, which opposes Islamabad’s plans for a barrier along the disputed frontier.
Pakistan plans to fence up most of the 2,500 km (1,500 mile) frontier despite Kabul’s protests that the barrier would divide families and friends along the Pashtun tribal belt straddling the colonial-era Durand Line drawn up by the British in 1893.
Pakistani soldiers patrol next to a newly fenced border fencing in Angoor Adda, SW.
Pakistan’s military estimates that it will need about Rs56 billion ($532 million) for the project, while there are also plans to build 750 border forts and employ high-tech surveillance systems to prevent militants crossing.
In the rolling hills of the Angoor Adda village in South Waziristan, part of Pakistan’s restive Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), three rolls of barbed wire are sandwiched in the six-foot gap between the chicken wire fences.
“(The fence) is a paradigm change. It is an epoch shift in the border control management,” Major General Nauman Zakaria, the Pakistan commander for the South Waziristan region, told reporters during a visit to the border on Wednesday that the fencing and surveillance technology would prevent attacks on both sides of the border.
“There will not be an inch of international border (in South Waziristan) which shall not remain under our observation,” he added.
Pakistan’s military has so far fenced off about 43 km of the frontier, starting with the most violence-prone areas in FATA, and is expected to recruit tens of thousands of new troops to man the border. It is not clear how long it will take to fence the entire boundary.
Electronic surveillance equipment near a newly fenced border fencing along Afghan border in NW.
But Pakistan’s plans have also drawn criticism from across the border.
Gulab Mangal, governor of the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar, told the international news agency the wall will create “more hatred and resentment” between two neighbours and will do neither country any good.
Both countries deny aiding militants, but relations between the two have soured in recent years. In May, the tension rose when 10 people were killed in two border villages in Baluchistan region.
Camouflage army snipers take position in a bunker near a newly fenced border at North Waziristan.
The clashes occurred in so-called “divided villages”, where the Durand Line goes through the heart of the community, and where residents are now bracing for the fence to split their villages in two.
Pakistan’s previous attempts to build a fence failed about a decade ago and many doubt whether its possible to secure such a lengthy border.
But Pakistani army officials are undeterred by the scepticism and insist they will finish the job as the country’s security rests on this fence.
An army helicopter patrol near a newly fenced border fencing along with Afghan’s Paktika province.
Pakistan Army said that newly installed fence and guard posts along the Pak-Afghan border will help prevent militant attacks.
“By the time we are done, Insh’Allah, we will be very sure of one thing: that nobody can cross this place,” General Zakaria said.
Still Nice work , now this looks like a proper International border .....
Bachabaz can oppose all they want
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Afghanistan opposes Pakistan plan for chicken-wire border fence to keep out militants (PHOTOS)
Pakistan
- Pakistan plans to fence up most of the 2,500 km (1,500 mile) frontier despite Kabul’s protests
- Pakistan’s military estimates that it will need about Rs56 billion ($532 million) for the project
- Pak army has so far fenced off about 43 km of the frontier, starting with the most violence-prone areas in FATA
by Muhammad Irfan | Published on October 19, 2017 (Edited October 19, 2017)
RAWALPINDI – Pakistan is betting that a pair of nine-foot chicken wire fences topped with barbed wire will stop incursions by militants from Afghanistan, which opposes Islamabad’s plans for a barrier along the disputed frontier.
Pakistan plans to fence up most of the 2,500 km (1,500 mile) frontier despite Kabul’s protests that the barrier would divide families and friends along the Pashtun tribal belt straddling the colonial-era Durand Line drawn up by the British in 1893.
Pakistani soldiers patrol next to a newly fenced border fencing in Angoor Adda, SW.
Pakistan’s military estimates that it will need about Rs56 billion ($532 million) for the project, while there are also plans to build 750 border forts and employ high-tech surveillance systems to prevent militants crossing.
In the rolling hills of the Angoor Adda village in South Waziristan, part of Pakistan’s restive Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), three rolls of barbed wire are sandwiched in the six-foot gap between the chicken wire fences.
“(The fence) is a paradigm change. It is an epoch shift in the border control management,” Major General Nauman Zakaria, the Pakistan commander for the South Waziristan region, told reporters during a visit to the border on Wednesday that the fencing and surveillance technology would prevent attacks on both sides of the border.
“There will not be an inch of international border (in South Waziristan) which shall not remain under our observation,” he added.
Pakistan’s military has so far fenced off about 43 km of the frontier, starting with the most violence-prone areas in FATA, and is expected to recruit tens of thousands of new troops to man the border. It is not clear how long it will take to fence the entire boundary.
Electronic surveillance equipment near a newly fenced border fencing along Afghan border in NW.
But Pakistan’s plans have also drawn criticism from across the border.
Gulab Mangal, governor of the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar, told the international news agency the wall will create “more hatred and resentment” between two neighbours and will do neither country any good.
Both countries deny aiding militants, but relations between the two have soured in recent years. In May, the tension rose when 10 people were killed in two border villages in Baluchistan region.
Camouflage army snipers take position in a bunker near a newly fenced border at North Waziristan.
The clashes occurred in so-called “divided villages”, where the Durand Line goes through the heart of the community, and where residents are now bracing for the fence to split their villages in two.
Pakistan’s previous attempts to build a fence failed about a decade ago and many doubt whether its possible to secure such a lengthy border.
But Pakistani army officials are undeterred by the scepticism and insist they will finish the job as the country’s security rests on this fence.
An army helicopter patrol near a newly fenced border fencing along with Afghan’s Paktika province.
Pakistan Army said that newly installed fence and guard posts along the Pak-Afghan border will help prevent militant attacks.
“By the time we are done, Insh’Allah, we will be very sure of one thing: that nobody can cross this place,” General Zakaria said.
At last common sense prevails and some Great news for once
KICK THEM ALL OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Military pushing ahead with Afghanistan border fencing
Ismail KhanUpdated December 30, 2017
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A VIEW of the fence running through an area in the Chitral region.
PESHAWAR: Braving cross-border firing and sniping, Pakistan’s military is pressing ahead with its plan to completely fence the 150-kilometre-long portion of the Pak-Afghan border billed as one of the most porous and perilous border regions in the world, according to a security official.
Thousands of soldiers and hundreds of vehicles are deployed at 14 different sites on a daily basis to undertake the arduous task of fencing the Pak-Afghan border — from Chitral to South Waziristan — putting in 7,000 man-hours for the installation of fabricated material.
An shot of Pak-Afghan border fencing in South Waziristan. — Photo by author
The first phase of the project is likely to be completed by the end of 2018, which will see the fencing of 432km at the most critical points along the border.
The second phase, called “desirable”, would see the fencing of another stretch of 400km, the official said. The entire project, costing Rs10 billion, was set to be completed in the next two years.
Pak-Afghan border fencing in Kurram Agency. — Photo by author
The fence runs along some of the most inhospitable border regions, from snow-capped mountains to rugged terrains to lush green valleys. “It is going ahead day and night,” the official said.
Official says Fata needs transformation; enactment of a law alone will not bring the kind of change people there deserve
“The Pak-Afghan border fencing is now a reality. We have broken the myth that this border is so perilous that it cannot be fenced. This is a project of strategic significance,” the security official said.
Pak-Afghan border view in Dir. — Photo by author
The fortification of the border would be augmented by border posts and an intrusion detection system, the official said. As part of the project, 150 of the total 443 forts had already been constructed, some built on mountaintops as high as 12,000 feet, while 1,100 border posts had also been established.
Also read: Pakistan fortifies border with Afghanistan to reduce cross-border attacks
“This will serve as a strong line of defence,” the official said.
The huge undertaking has not come without human costs. Security officials say that in two months alone — July and August — an officer and a Junior Commissioned Officer embraced martyrdom on account of sniping from across the border. Three soldiers sustained injuries.
“It is tough,” a civilian construction worker who worked at the project in Mohmand tribal region said.
Wearing a helmet and bullet-proof vests, he said they would work in shifts and round the clock to complete the job. “Invariably, we would draw fire from across the border,” Dawar, who goes by one name, told Dawn.
But officials say the project is worth the human and material costs involved. “...The fallout of the war in Afghanistan in the last few decades negatively impacted us in terms of security and militancy,” the official said.
But with better border management, this would change, the official said. “There is now zero presence of militants on our side of the border region.”
The writ of the state has been restored and stability has returned to the tribal region and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), he maintained.
As examples, he cited the successful completion of census in the entire KP and Federally Administered Tribal Areas involving some 50,000 troops, conduct of the National Jeep Rally through Fata, and the Peace Cup Cricket in North Waziristan.
The huge undertaking has not come without human costs. A view of Pak-Afghan border fence in South Waziristan. — Photo by author
All this, he added, was not without effort. In the last year alone, nearly 4,000 intelligence-based operations were conducted, during which 109 hardcore militants were killed and around 8,000 arrested, including the successful operation that led to the recovery of a Canadian couple and their children from the custody of militants.
But he warned that with about 5,000-7,000 militants still sitting across the border — enjoying operational impunity and waiting for an opportunity to strike — the stability curve would continue to be contested.
“Their narrative has been defeated and their recruitment base has been meaningfully shrunk, but with their sanctuary across the border aided and supported by their handlers, they would continue to make efforts to hurt us by attacking soft targets. Bringing down terrorist incidents to zero is a desire that will take a long time to fulfil.”
However, security was just one aspect of the Fata stabilisation process, the security official said. This would have to be complemented by socio-economic investment in the region to bring it par with other regions of the country.
“Right now, Fata has the lowest socio-economic indicators in the country.”
For its part, the Pakistan Army’s 11th Corps that commands the region has undertaken several key projects of strategic nature, including the construction of 150km roads, in addition to up-gradation and construction of 693km roads to increase regional connectivity, establishment of schools, cadet colleges, vocational and technical institutes, reopening of 785 hospitals and setting up of commercial hubs and markets besides the creation of the first Agri Park of Pakistan to include warehouses and vegetable and fruit processing plants.
“Fata needs transformation,” the security official said. “A mere enactment of law alone will not bring the kind of change the people of Fata really deserve. It will require practical steps,” the official added.
Published in Dawn, December 30th, 2017
Ismail KhanUpdated December 30, 2017
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A VIEW of the fence running through an area in the Chitral region.
PESHAWAR: Braving cross-border firing and sniping, Pakistan’s military is pressing ahead with its plan to completely fence the 150-kilometre-long portion of the Pak-Afghan border billed as one of the most porous and perilous border regions in the world, according to a security official.
Thousands of soldiers and hundreds of vehicles are deployed at 14 different sites on a daily basis to undertake the arduous task of fencing the Pak-Afghan border — from Chitral to South Waziristan — putting in 7,000 man-hours for the installation of fabricated material.
An shot of Pak-Afghan border fencing in South Waziristan. — Photo by author
The first phase of the project is likely to be completed by the end of 2018, which will see the fencing of 432km at the most critical points along the border.
The second phase, called “desirable”, would see the fencing of another stretch of 400km, the official said. The entire project, costing Rs10 billion, was set to be completed in the next two years.
Pak-Afghan border fencing in Kurram Agency. — Photo by author
The fence runs along some of the most inhospitable border regions, from snow-capped mountains to rugged terrains to lush green valleys. “It is going ahead day and night,” the official said.
Official says Fata needs transformation; enactment of a law alone will not bring the kind of change people there deserve
“The Pak-Afghan border fencing is now a reality. We have broken the myth that this border is so perilous that it cannot be fenced. This is a project of strategic significance,” the security official said.
Pak-Afghan border view in Dir. — Photo by author
The fortification of the border would be augmented by border posts and an intrusion detection system, the official said. As part of the project, 150 of the total 443 forts had already been constructed, some built on mountaintops as high as 12,000 feet, while 1,100 border posts had also been established.
Also read: Pakistan fortifies border with Afghanistan to reduce cross-border attacks
“This will serve as a strong line of defence,” the official said.
The huge undertaking has not come without human costs. Security officials say that in two months alone — July and August — an officer and a Junior Commissioned Officer embraced martyrdom on account of sniping from across the border. Three soldiers sustained injuries.
“It is tough,” a civilian construction worker who worked at the project in Mohmand tribal region said.
Wearing a helmet and bullet-proof vests, he said they would work in shifts and round the clock to complete the job. “Invariably, we would draw fire from across the border,” Dawar, who goes by one name, told Dawn.
But officials say the project is worth the human and material costs involved. “...The fallout of the war in Afghanistan in the last few decades negatively impacted us in terms of security and militancy,” the official said.
But with better border management, this would change, the official said. “There is now zero presence of militants on our side of the border region.”
The writ of the state has been restored and stability has returned to the tribal region and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), he maintained.
As examples, he cited the successful completion of census in the entire KP and Federally Administered Tribal Areas involving some 50,000 troops, conduct of the National Jeep Rally through Fata, and the Peace Cup Cricket in North Waziristan.
The huge undertaking has not come without human costs. A view of Pak-Afghan border fence in South Waziristan. — Photo by author
All this, he added, was not without effort. In the last year alone, nearly 4,000 intelligence-based operations were conducted, during which 109 hardcore militants were killed and around 8,000 arrested, including the successful operation that led to the recovery of a Canadian couple and their children from the custody of militants.
But he warned that with about 5,000-7,000 militants still sitting across the border — enjoying operational impunity and waiting for an opportunity to strike — the stability curve would continue to be contested.
“Their narrative has been defeated and their recruitment base has been meaningfully shrunk, but with their sanctuary across the border aided and supported by their handlers, they would continue to make efforts to hurt us by attacking soft targets. Bringing down terrorist incidents to zero is a desire that will take a long time to fulfil.”
However, security was just one aspect of the Fata stabilisation process, the security official said. This would have to be complemented by socio-economic investment in the region to bring it par with other regions of the country.
“Right now, Fata has the lowest socio-economic indicators in the country.”
For its part, the Pakistan Army’s 11th Corps that commands the region has undertaken several key projects of strategic nature, including the construction of 150km roads, in addition to up-gradation and construction of 693km roads to increase regional connectivity, establishment of schools, cadet colleges, vocational and technical institutes, reopening of 785 hospitals and setting up of commercial hubs and markets besides the creation of the first Agri Park of Pakistan to include warehouses and vegetable and fruit processing plants.
“Fata needs transformation,” the security official said. “A mere enactment of law alone will not bring the kind of change the people of Fata really deserve. It will require practical steps,” the official added.
Published in Dawn, December 30th, 2017
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There are posts, sensors and surveillance cameras, some areas have trenches to prevent any vehicle coming in.This is chicken wire:
Who is going to need a tunnel?
You can probably bend that with your hands.
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