Pak-Afghan border fencing to be completed in 2019: DG ISPR
GHULAM KHAN: Director General of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Major General Asif Ghafoor Sunday said work on around 900-kilometre fence along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border had been completed, adding that the fence has stopped cross-border attacks.
Briefing a team of journalists and anchorpersons at Ghulam Khan, a bordering village in North Waziristan Agency, the military spokesperson said the work on the erection of about 1200 km chunk was commenced last year, adding that the fencing would be completed during the current year.
He said about 1200 kms of the border lay in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa while the rest part of the total 2600 kms was in Balochistan.
In a separate interview with senior journalist and TV anchor Hamid Mir, DG ISPR said that the fence has made it difficult for terrorists to cross the border, adding that it will stop cross-border terrorism and uncontrolled movement of the people even if the law and order situation gets worst again in Afghanistan after the withdrawal of US troops.
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