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Pakistan steps up anti-terror operation in Afghan border

IRNA

Islamabad, Sept 22, IRNA -- Pakistan`s forces have stepped up 
operation against Taliban elements on Pakistan-Afghanistan border. 
Islamabad-based daily Nawa-e-Waqt reported in its Monday issue 
that under the plan, security has been tightened up close to the 
border to combat Taliban. 
The newspaper said, under operation-Al-Meezan-the liaison and 
coordination between the army personnel and other law-enforcement 
agencies has been strengthened. 
As part of new plan, 12 hundred-kilometre areas have been made 
accessible: as many as 30 new posts have been established in the area,
including the South Waziristan Agency, a hilly and rugged locality 
close to the border, the daily added. 
In all, 86 new posts have been set up on Pak-Afghan border to keep
a close vigil, ensuring no unwanted element crosses the border, it 
said. 
MHA/TSH/211 
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