Pakistan to beef up security along Afghanistan border: Army
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Islamabad, Aug 12, IRNA
Pakistan-Border
Pakistan will beef up security along the porous Pak-Afghan border in the run up to the upcoming polls in Afghanistan, said a local army official here Friday.
Speaking to IRNA, Director General of Inter-Services Public Relations Major General Shaukat Sultan said that security would further be beefed up along the border.
The issue of security on Pak-Afghan border and the upcoming parliamentary election in the war-devastated country figured prominently during the recent meeting in Kabul of Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz and Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
Calling for increased security during the presidential election, Karzai urged Pakistan to take similar security measures during the first parliamentary elections in Afghanistan after some three decades.
The ISPR chief maintained that more personnel would be deployed to check infiltration and cross-border movements along the almost 2400-kilometer long porous rugged Pak-Afghan border.
Two Pakistani provinces (the North West Frontier Province and Baluchistan) share border with Afghanistan.
Asked if the border would be sealed, the ISPR official said that the Foreign Office would be in the best position to answer this question.
Pakistan had already deployed about 70,000 security personnel along the border following the fall of Taliban regime in 2002.
The reconnaissance helicopters and checkpoints set up at different points are part of efforts to check cross border movements.
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