Pakistan starts digging trench on Pak-Afghan border
Afghanistan has expressed concern over the development; trench will be 10-feet wide, 485-km long
QANDHAR: (AP, Dunya News) – Pakistan has started to dig a trench on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border to control movement of extremists, smugglers and terrorists. This trench will allow Pakistan better surveillance on Afghan border for ensuring peace and security in Baluchistan. The trench will be 485-kilometer long, 10-feet wide and 8-feet deep. Afghanistan has expressed concern over this development, Associated Press reported.
According to a statement issued by Frontier Corps (FC), the trench will not only help controlling the smuggling of drugs and weapons but will also allow keeping a check on the movement of terrorists and illegal movement of citizens of the two countries.
Police chief of Qandhar has expressed concern over this development saying that Pakistan wants to occupy Afghan territory through this trench. “If Pakistan wants end to terrorism then it must stop the activities which beget terrorism. General Abdul Razzaq said that the people never accepted the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Former Afghan minister Akram Akhbalwaaq said that the trench was unacceptable to Afghanistan.
