Pakistan fences 150 km of sensitive Pak-Afghan border areas in six months

[Baby Leone]

too slow

its 2400 in total...

 

[graphican]

thast about 10 km a year 15 years 150km, not bad we will need another 200 years
yeah and no MRAPS for our poor FC guys, we need to go and learn from srilankans about MRAPs i guess
funds ? just cancel one of the submarine from 8 subs and pay for MRAPs and boarder management, first things are first...

PS:
i dont blame the miitery here, i blame the civilian leadership

There is no concept of civilian or military when comes to leadership, its just "leadership", whoever chose to provide. Leadership doesn't mean control, leadership means vision and ability to coordinate resources to progress towards your goal. Whoever provides a vision with resources is a leader.

Now talking of "civilian" leadership, stupid "siri paye khor" person has been sitting on the chair of premiership, who used to eat a lot and $hit a ton. But he was never a leader, and never expected to provide a leadership. Leadership doesn't come from the chair itself, chair means authority - which Nawaz always had - but regardless of who had authority, anybody could've been a leader - either from Civilians or Military. If a leader exists, he would act regardless of authority. With "authority", you have opportunity to crate bigger impacts only - and in the absence of authority, you are a leader according to vision and size of resources you carry.

Here we are the biggest culprits - even bigger than Nawaz Sharif was. If you can see problems - you have to play your role to fix them or you are worse then those who are blinded and uninformed. In Pakistan, there no absence of readership but absence of realisation and action. So whoever realises and acts is a leader and there can be many, including you and me.

And after developing this understanding towards leadership and responsibility you acquire as a result, I am leading a mission to educate my country. May Allah bless me strength to make this happen.

 

[Skywalker]

Please stop this joke....
150km ....are you kidding. Are we only able to fence 150km???
What about Baluchistan part of the border , you can solve half the problems by fencing. Just yesterday a truck full of explosives was able to cross Afghanistan and reach till quetta. Had it crashed any building. We would be mourning our dead.
No one has will...This is due to lack of will from civil government and military .
Eat grass but spend money on this fencing.
Peace is sadly not going to come to afghanistan in near future.
And those fools who say that America wanted to leave are wrong, America don't wanted to go at any cost. And for that they would keep afghanistan as it is.
For Allah sake do something to fence it. After 2 years we don't want to hear that you fenced 150km.
It's like installing a gate in open place.

Have you ever been there or just an internet warrior finds reason to criticise anything pass through your eyes. How about leave your confidence bad and help them to work with a fast pace.

 

[Menace2Society]

Have you ever been there or just an internet warrior finds reason to criticise anything pass through your eyes. How about leave your confidence bad and help them to work with a fast pace.

He's right the attacks from Afghanistan started in 2005 and now in 2018 only 150km has been fenced?

This could have all been avoided.

 

[Khan_21]

He's right, militancy started in 2005


He's right the attacks from Afghanistan started in 2005 and now in 2018 only 150km has been fenced?

This could have all been avoided.

You forget that till 2014 , waziristan and bordering areas were infested with thousands of militants from around the world. It wasn't untill zarb-azb that our army managed to reach the bordering areas.

 

[Menace2Society]

You forget that till 2014 , waziristan and bordering areas were infested with thousands of militants from around the world. It wasn't untill zarb-azb that our army managed to reach the bordering areas.

Yes because PA had no plan to deal with blowback of Afghan invasion.

They sat back whilst foreign agencies got a foothold of Pakistani territory. I blame Musharraf incompetent fool. Its 101 of military strategy.

 

[Kabira]

Need to increase the pace . 6 =7 years is too long.

From 0 border management to completely fenced in 7 years? I'll take that.

 

[Imran Khan]

do it quickly and every inch must be triple fenced

 

[ziaulislam]

Have you ever been there or just an internet warrior finds reason to criticise anything pass through your eyes. How about leave your confidence bad and help them to work with a fast pace.

if doctor is held responsible for a patient death in which he has no control or if are school teacher is held responsible for poor student performance why cant a politician and amry general be held responsible

india is light years ahead of us in this department of accountability

From 0 border management to completely fenced in 7 years? I'll take that.

so you are giving than 10 points for sleeping for one decade form 2003-04 to 2012

india fenced whole kashmir boarder in a year while facing a 5 lac pak army while pak army fenced 150km boarder, in 7 years i would say great acheivement

 

[Kabira]

so you are giving than 10 points for sleeping for one decade form 2003-04 to 2012

india fenced whole kashmir boarder in a year while facing a 5 lac pak army while pak army fenced 150km boarder, in 7 years i would say great acheivement

India spend like $40 billion in IoK per year, Pakistan doesn't have resources like that. Only few years ago we were told fencing border is impossible and now we are talking about fencing all of before it 2025. It may even happen before if more budget is allocated, who knows.

 

[Clutch]

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

 

[ziaulislam]

India spend like $40 billion in IoK per year, Pakistan doesn't have resources like that. Only few years ago we were told fencing border is impossible and now we are talking about fencing all of before it 2025. It may even happen before if more budget is allocated, who knows.

thats not the whole defence budget and hence its wrong and false

whole fencing should cost more than 2-3 billion dollars
whole mexican wall is estimated around 20 billion dollars(And its a wall not fence and expensive us labour with larger boarder)

ps:
better than never
blame is purely on civilian leader ship

we need MRAPs, Drones, forts, surveillance equipment, FATA reforms and fencing

dedicating around 1 billion dollars per year is more than important

 

[Rizwan Alam]

What is the mechanism of fencing the border. Is there any land mining within certain distance before or after the fence?? How secure these fences are since the fences are supposed to secure the border?

 

[Awan68]

Thats good news. I also believe they should put FC rather than army in those forts. FC should be upgraded and should have attack helicopters and modern armory . The lesson that we can learn from US in Afghanistan is by having an excellent , quick and effective response to any aggression on any of the check posts on border. This counter attack strategy would be really effective against them.

Fc will man these posts, not regular army in the long run.