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US ‘building’ military base along Pakistan border

24th May, 2021 · admin

Ariana: US forces have begun construction of a large military base across the Durand Line, as international troops continue to withdraw from Afghanistan, sources said. According to the sources, the base is being built at the Shalozan Kurram Agency area in the Tribal Area inside Pakistan – in the Zazai Aryub district which borders Paktia

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Posted in Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Security, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Durand Line, Paktia |
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Divided By Pakistan’s Border Fence, Pashtuns Lose Business, Rights, And Tribal Ties

17th May, 2021 · admin

By Pamir Sahill May 17, 2021 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Until a few year ago, Malak Ziarat Gul Atmarkhel made a decent living from his businesses that crossed the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. He is a tribal leader of the Mohmand, a large Pashtun tribe that straddles the border, and ran a market and restaurant

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Posted in Economic News, Ethnic Issues, History, Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Refugees and Migrants | Tags: Durand Line, Kuchis, Pashtuns in Pakistan |
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Pakistan Fences Off Afghanistan, Impacting Families And Fighters

6th February, 2021 · admin · 5 Comments

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty February 5, 2021 Frud Bezhan Daud Khattak Families, traders, and guerrilla fighters have for generations moved freely across the porous border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. The disputed 2,670-kilometer frontier traverses some of the world’s most forbidding terrain, snaking through desolate deserts and towering mountains more than 4,000 meters high. Drawn by

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Posted in History, Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Security, Taliban | Tags: Durand Line, Pashtuns in Pakistan |
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Pakistan Says Afghan Border Fence Nearly Complete

4th December, 2020 · admin · 5 Comments

Ayaz Gul VOA News December 4, 2020 ISLAMABAD – Pakistan’s military says it will have fenced off the country’s roughly 2,600-kilometer historically porous border with Afghanistan within the next two months. The army’s media wing Friday shared the latest assessment with VOA on the massive unilateral construction effort that was launched in early 2017 to

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Posted in Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Durand Line |
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It’s not just India, Pakistan also covets the Afghanistan borderlands

16th October, 2020 · admin · 1 Comment

IANS: While the India-Pakistan border remains hot, and in news, due to infiltration of terrorists and artillery shelling by the Pakistani Army, the situation is equally bad on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border where the Pakistani Army has been building a fence against the wishes of the Afghan government. Click here to read more (external link).  

Posted in Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Durand Line |
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Pakistan Reopens Key Border Crossing With Afghanistan

21st August, 2020 · admin

RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal August 21, 2020 Pakistan has reopened the Chaman border crossing between its Balochistan Province and the Afghan province of Nangarhar. The border crossing was closed in March following the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in Pakistan. Officials said on August 21 they decided to reopen the crossing after talks between Balochistan regional

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Posted in Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Durand Line |
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Pakistani Army Claims Cross-Border Firing From Afghanistan Killed Soldier

6th August, 2020 · admin

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 6, 2020 The Pakistani military said one of its soldiers was killed and two others wounded by cross-border shelling from Afghanistan. In a statement on August 6, the Pakistani military said members of its Frontier Corps came under heavy mortar shelling and firing from Afghanistan a day earlier. The military

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Posted in Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Durand Line |
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Pakistani Shelling Kills 15 Afghan Civilians, Kabul Says, After Clashes At Closed Border

31st July, 2020 · admin

RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan July 31, 2020 Cross-border shelling by Pakistan killed at least 15 civilians in Afghanistan on July 31, prompting Kabul to put its ground and air forces on alert. The shelling came after clashes between Pakistani and Afghan security forces at the closed Chaman-Spin Boldak border crossing, where people were waiting to

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Posted in Civilian Injuries and Deaths, Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Security | Tags: Durand Line |
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Pakistan to restore Afghanistan’s exports through Wagah border

13th July, 2020 · admin · 5 Comments

PTI: With the move, Pakistan intends to fulfill its commitments under Pakistan-Afghanistan Transit Trade Agreement. Pakistan said on Monday that it will restore Afghanistan’s exports through the Wagah border with India from Wednesday at the special request of Kabul and to facilitate Afghan Transit Trade. Pakistan closed the Wagah border with India in mid-March in

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Posted in Economic News, Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Durand Line |
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Official: Top Afghan Leader to Visit Pakistan Amid Improving Ties

6th July, 2020 · admin

By Ayaz Gul VOA News July 5, 2020 ISLAMABAD – Pakistan says it has formally invited Afghanistan’s chief peace negotiator, Abdullah Abdullah, to pay an official visit to Islamabad at “mutually convenient dates.” The move is the latest in a series of steps the Pakistani government has taken in a bid to improve the country’s often

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Posted in Economic News, Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Dr. Abdullah, Durand Line |
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