Pakistan and Afghanistan
share a 2,640-kiliometer disputed border that is very porous / unsafe. This boundary line is
called the Durand Line it’s a frontier boundary. It was established after an 1893 memorandum of
understanding (MoU).
DG ISPR Gen Asim Saleem Bajwa said that “Afghans firing at Torkham on under
construction gate by Pak on Pakistani side. This gate is 37 Meters inside Pakistan.
This gate considered essential to check & verify documentation of all
border crossers and will check move of terrorists”.
Afghanistan has
long opposed this idea as it does not recognize the gate as a legitimate
dividing line. “The guns have fallen
silent but the situation is extremely tense. “Everything is suspended. A curfew
has been imposed and many families have been forced out of that area to seek refuge
in other places.”
The curfew has
been declared at the Pakistani LandiKotal town. Afghanistan blamed Pakistan for
starting the fighting. The Pakistan Army had moved heavy weaponry and
additional troops to the Afghan border on Monday night as the clash
intensified.
When Pakistan
Army give them a quick response then Afghan government’s chief executive
Abdullah Abdullah said that we currently have agreed on a ceasefire with
Pakistan. We hope this problem will end through the work by diplomatic
addresses.
Pakistan’s moves
towards fencing a 2km area at the Torkham crossing, was opposed and stopped by
Afghanistan. The row led to Pakistan’s closure of the crossing last
month, affecting thousands of people who commute across the border each day.
Pakistan says
there is an infiltration of fighters and militants from the Afghani side, and
fencing of the border was the only immediate solution to keep a check on the
people crossing.
Pakistan has a history of military
support for different factions within Afghanistan, extending at least as far
back as the early 1970s. During the 1980s, Pakistan, which was host to more
than two million Afghan refugees, was the most significant front-line state
serving as a secure base for the mujahidin fighting against the Soviet
intervention.
2.5 million Afghani IDP’s were register
in Pakistan by UNHCR and 2.7 illegally came to Pakistan during different wars
in Afghanistan. Pakistan provides shelter, food and much more to Afghani
nations.
How
treacherous afghani nation is that
they always try to harm Pakistan by terrorism and extremism just in order to
unstable Pakistan.
Pakistani
security forces responded to Afghan firing effectively," said Ayub Hussain
khel, a Pakistani border-police commander in eastern Afghanistan. "We have
received reinforcement and are ready to defend our country until the last drop
of blood in our bodies." Afghani six soldiers were also badly wounded in
the incident and after few hours due to no facility of access to hospital they
died. The incident reportedly broke out at roughly 9 p.m & continued for
several hours.
There are many other border violation
practice by Afghani troops such as , On June 5, seven Pakistani Solders were killed and
several others injured after fighters opened fire at a post in Bajaur,
Federally Administered Tribal Areas, from their alleged hideouts inside
Afghan territory.
This was the fifth attack by
fighters from Afghanistan in the past two weeks following which Islamabad
pledged to retaliate in self-defence if such attacks were not stopped.
Not only this, they burn our Pakistani
flag, they tortures Pakistani labors in Afghanistan specially the police beating
them and snatching money from them which they earn in their state. They use abusive
language.
Dear Afghanistan, with due
reverence, we can burn your flag, disgrace your nation, can use harsh words and
abusive language even we can show no mercy towards you but being a true Muslims
and a true Pakistani it’s not practice of Islam. You start war and we will end
this. Don’t forget Pakistani nation the lion’s.
Pakistan-Afghanistan border requires more
effective management and that infiltration should be stopped for all times to
come. The long and unsafe border between Pakistan and Afghanistan is frequently
used by human and drug traffickers, criminals and terrorists. The easy access
through the unguarded unsafe border provides opportunity to unwanted guests.
Recently,
tensions heightened between Pakistan and Afghanistan when Kabul objected to the
border fencing within the Pakistan territory and officially protested to
Pakistan over the issue. Not only that, the Afghan troops started firing on the
Pakistan posts and civilian population in Landikotal. Due to the hostile
actions, Pakistan was forced to send more troops to the border.
Earlier, this
year when terrorists from Afghanistan crossed into Pakistan and attacked the
Army Public School & College Peshawar, Bacha Khan University Charsadda, the
defence minister told the upper house of parliament that management of the
border between Pakistan and Afghanistan was an issue that required massive
improvement. Thousands of people crossed the Pakistan-Afghanistan border every
day. “The situation today is such that we do not have an effective control over
our border with Afghanistan, which is why people who go from here have made
sanctuaries over there.
One of the issues
that should be negotiated with Afghanistan that there should be a mechanism
whereby the border could be managed more effectively to stop the infiltration
from boundary.
There should be a
fence to seal the border, despite 183,000 troops manning the border. Meanwhile,
the Pakistan Institute of Legal Development has hailed various measures being
taken by Pakistan to better manages the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and has
suggested stringent measures towards the border management.
Pakistan is
enforcing stricter border management system. It is important to understand that
the easement rights are only exerciser by members of the tribes divided by
the Durand Line and are not available to other ordinary nationals of
Afghanistan or Pakistan.”
Live Long PAKISTAN ,
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