The Fence Driving a Wedge Between Pakistan and Afghanistan
- Border smuggling dwarves official trading between neighbors
- Pakistan has only fenced 43 kilometers of large pourous border
Photographer: AAMIR QURESHI/AFP via Getty Images
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On the upper deck of the Hamza Fort border check-point in Pakistan’s South Waziristan, Major General Nauman Zakaria points to a 12-foot high fence just yards away -- the latest initiative the military says will stem insurgent attacks across a more than 1,000 mile disputed border with Afghanistan.
“There won’t be an inch of international border that shall not remain under our observation,” said Zakaria, who has served in counter-insurgency operations in restive border regions of south and north Waziristan.