Pakistan speeds up fencing border with Afghanistan

[Areesh]

Waste of money without strong human intelligencea and then subsequent operations based on them in Waziristan and Balochistan

 

[Pak Nationalist]

Don't be against fencing. It is need of the hour.

It was, but against smuggling. Its utility as an anti-infiltration system is debatable and should be debated. Free societies debate the merit, demerits, and efficacies of policies. I do not think questioning the efficacy of fencing as an anti-infiltration measure targeted at terrorists should be called stupid, or the person asking these questions should be called stupid (as one member, I believe a professional did). We can argue to reach synthesis.

 

[TigerOfMysore]

Fencing without optics and vibration sensors, combined with UAVs, foot patrols and QRF, along-with layered checkpoints further inland will have limited value to our security. Cells that attack Pakistan are developed in a very different way. Our biggest threat is free flow money and people. That happens at border crossings not over fences. Fences might interdict some smuggling. Attacks within Pakistan might get human resources from outside, but weapons, explosives, logistics and funding is all internal within Pakistan. So I have to agree with some of my cohorts here that fencing will have a limited effect on BRA/BLA and TTP. To tackle them what happens on our side of the fence is more important than the fence itself.

 

[Pak Nationalist]

Solid walls as well please where possible, concrete with barbed wire. More forward posts which are manned and well protected.
Remote gun units as well to be used in areas of terrorist concentration.

This infrastructure is of limited value unless backed by sensors to make the CI grid "intelligent" and add lethality to the response and readiness. It would need massive investments; even then, the use of subterranean channels to infiltrate could be very hard to trace.

Fencing without optics and vibration sensors, combined with UAVs, foot patrols and QRF, along-with layered checkpoints further inland will have limited value to our security. Cells that attack Pakistan are developed in a very different way. Our biggest threat is free flow money and people. That happens at border crossings not over fences. Fences might interdict some smuggling. But attacks within Pakistan might get human resources from outside, but weapons, explosives, logistics and funding is all internal within Pakistan. So I have to agree with some of my cohorts here that fencing will have a limited effect on BRA/BLA and TTP. To tackle them what happens on our side of the fence is more important than the fence itself.

Bingo!

All that costs a fortune that we do not have, unfortunately. Without a strong economy, we cannot police our borders effectively. Without policing our borders effectively, we would be unable to have a strong economy (lack of investment would keep creating external account imbalances due to higher outflows than inflows)—kind of a chicken and hen problem.

 

[Rafi]

When will the war end? Can you say with certainty that after the entire Western frontier is fenced we will begin seeing things get better after the passage of a specific time span? What is the end game here? Soldiers die, sure (occupational hazard), but seeing their comrades fall each day takes a toll on morale as well (again, you would know better than any of us here).

It will take another decade to complete this war. It will rumble on at a low level.

 

[Goritoes]

Where possible, it should be mined as well.

Also use them if possible

 

[waqar911]

Approx 7% remains unfenced but work is in progress to complete it asap.

Thanks

 

[SD 10]

When will the war end? Can you say with certainty that after the entire Western frontier is fenced we will begin seeing things get better after the passage of a specific time span? What is the end game here? Soldiers die, sure (occupational hazard), but seeing their comrades fall each day takes a toll on morale as well (again, you would know better than any of us here).

war never ends ... one way or the other.....

 

[Mahmood-ur-Rehman]

Fence the Iran border and sea shores of Baloachistan and Sindh

 

[Asian.Century]