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Major General Athar Abbas, director general of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), demanded for tighter monitoring of the Pak-Afghan border.Athar Abbas added that a cross-border flow into Afghanistan was hampering Pakistan's campaign to crush the Taliban. We are at full stretch. I have to say that the border is a joint responsibility, he said in a presentation to the Royal United Services Institute, a London think tank.According to Maj Gen Abbas, there are now 821 Pakistan army checkpoints on the border, but just 112 Afghan army or NATO posts.Athar also claimed that factions within the Afghan Taliban had begun fighting the mainly Arab Al-Qaeda operatives and their allies in recent weeks.
