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Pak intelligence calls for Afghan border to be closed | Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has called for tighter control of the Afghan border by NATO troops to stop Taliban fighters from escaping its operations in the North West Frontier. Major General
Athar Abbas, the director general of the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR),
claimed that a cross-border flow into Afghanistan was hampering its campaign to
crush the Taliban. "We are at full stretch. I have to say that the border is a
joint responsibility," The Telegraph quoted Major General Athar Abass, as saying
in a presentation to the Royal United Services Institute, a London think tank.
"NATO must stop the cross border flow," he said. Pakistan has rapidly expanded
its presence along the Afghanistan border, which crosses mountains and deserts,
after years of complaints from NATO that it was not doing enough to stop Taliban
and al-Qaeda fighters finding safe haven in its territory. According to Major
General Abbas, there are now 821 Pakistan army checkpoints on the border, but
just 112 Afghan Army or NATO posts. Pakistan officials have proclaimed the
success
of its operations in the autonomous territories dominated by Pashtun tribes that
have sheltered the Taliban. |
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