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Afghan/Pakistan border (Durand Line)
The Durand Line is the term for the poorly marked 2,640 kilometer (1,610 mile) border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
After being defeated in two wars against Afghans, the British succeeded in 1893 in imposing the Durand Line dividing Afghanistan and what was then British India (now the Northern Areas, North-West Frontier Province, Federally Administered Tribal Areas and Balochistan areas of Pakistan). Named for Sir Mortimer Durand, the foreign secretary of the British Indian government, it was agreed upon by representatives of both Afghanistan and the British Empire, but deeply resented by the Afghan Emir Abdur Rahman Khan. One of the two representatives of the Afghan government was the Ahmadi Sahibzada Abdul Latif of Khost. The border was drawn intentionally to cut through the Afghan tribes whom the British feared and may have tried to disunite, and today about 28 million Pashtuns are found on the Pakistan side of the line, and perhaps half that amount on the Afghan side.
wikipediaThe Durand Line is the term for the poorly marked 2,640 kilometer (1,610 mile) border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
After being defeated in two wars against Afghans, the British succeeded in 1893 in imposing the Durand Line dividing Afghanistan and what was then British India (now the Northern Areas, North-West Frontier Province, Federally Administered Tribal Areas and Balochistan areas of Pakistan). Named for Sir Mortimer Durand, the foreign secretary of the British Indian government, it was agreed upon by representatives of both Afghanistan and the British Empire, but deeply resented by the Afghan Emir Abdur Rahman Khan. One of the two representatives of the Afghan government was the Ahmadi Sahibzada Abdul Latif of Khost. The border was drawn intentionally to cut through the Afghan tribes whom the British feared and may have tried to disunite, and today about 28 million Pashtuns are found on the Pakistan side of the line, and perhaps half that amount on the Afghan side.
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STLtoday.com
April 2, 2018
Dramatic new video released by the US military on Tuesday reveals rare footage of American special operators and Afghan Special Security Forces conducting a nighttime raid targeting ISIS-affiliated ... Afghan officials said the strike in Nangarhar province near the Pakistan border killed 36 ISIS fighters.
The News International (blog)
April 1, 2018
PESHAWAR: The traders on Saturday asked the Afghanistan border authorities to allow 2,000 empty trucks to enter Pakistan. In a press release issued to media, Director Pakistan-Afghanistan Joint Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PAJCCI) Ziaul Haq Sarhadi said that the Afghanistan border authoritiesÃâà...
The Nation
March 19, 2018
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan and Afghanistan will exchange highest-level visits soon to hammer out a deal to improve bilateral ties, The Nation learnt. ... Pakistan forces had already moved heavy artillery and military equipment closer to Pak-Afghan border to stop infiltration and destroy the militants' hideoutsÃâà...
NewsBytes
March 19, 2018
A Pakistani official said militants ambushed a seven-member medical team vaccinating against polio in Safi tehsil of Mohmand Agency on the border with Afghanistan, killing two workers and abducting three others. "The remaining two polio workers managed to escape the attack and reached Ghalanai, theÃâà...
Daily Times
March 19, 2018
To a question about measures taken to eliminate terrorism from Pakistan, he said the country has fought a successful war against terrorism. “A war which entered Pakistan through the2,611-km scantily manned Pak-Afghan border when US-led coalition forces started military operations in AfghanistanÃâà...
TOLOnews
March 19, 2018
Afghanistan has been accusing Pakistan of harboring Taliban leaders, fueling insecurity and obstructing purposeful peace negotiations between the Afghan government and the Taliban. Afghanistan also believes that the insurgents have safe havens in Pakistan's border regions. But officials in IslamabadÃâà...
Pakistan Today
March 18, 2018
PESHAWAR: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Saturday visited Corps Headquarters Peshawar and Khyber Agency. According to ISPR, at the corps headquarters Peshawar, the COAS was given a detailed briefing on the security situation in FATA and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,Ãâà...
TOLOnews
March 18, 2018
Afghan Border Police Force members claim that little attention has been paid to strengthening outposts along the Durand Line. ... by TOLOnews found that the Pakistani military has built new facilities close to Torkham Crossing – along the Durand Line, the de facto border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Voice of America
March 18, 2018
Ghani extended the invitation Saturday in a meeting at his presidential palace with visiting Pakistani National Security Adviser Nasser Janjua, ... In addition, the statement said views were exchanged on how to jointly counter cross-border activities of terrorist and criminal networks, as well as drug traffickers.
Arab News
March 17, 2018
In this file photo, Pakistani soldiers keep vigil next to newly fenced border fencing along with Afghan's Paktika province border in Angoor Adda in ... ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's Interior Ministry on Friday said 48 additional border posts have been constructed on the border with Afghanistan to curb smuggling.
DunyaNews Pakistan (blog)
March 13, 2018
Our political and military leaders decided to become a front-line ally of US in Afghan proxy war. Afghan mujahideen were supplied arms and weapons to prevent communist expansion further south. Afghan jihadis were used to move freely across the porous Pak-Afghan border, getting trained in PakistanÃâà...
Voice of America
March 13, 2018
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif made the revelation during an official visit to Islamabad, saying the attacks had been planned for this past Monday. Tehran has long alleged that anti-Iranian Sunni extremists use hideouts in the Pakistani border province of Baluchistan for plotting terrorismÃâà...
Business Insider
March 13, 2018
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has also piled pressure on Pakistan to crack down on militant safe havens on its side of the Afghan-Pakistan border. Mattis said he had seen some positive indications from Islamabad, noting some Pakistani military operations along the border. Mattis said theÃâà...
Daily Times
March 12, 2018
ISLAMABAD: An armed group on Sunday stopped Pakistani trucks from heading to Afghan capital Kabul after officials cleared the consignment to ... Earlier the Afghan security officials had stopped four trucks, carrying cement, shortly after the convoy crossed Ghulam Khan border that was opened on MarchÃâà...
Voice of America
March 12, 2018
The Taliban has captured a western Afghan district near the border with Iran after inflicting heavy casualties on government forces. Insurgents early Monday ... Afghan military-led operations backed by U.S. airstrikes have lately inflicted heavy casualties on the Taliban in Helmand, which borders Pakistan.
ABC News
February 20, 2018
Russia has named an honorary consul in a Pakistani province on the Afghan border, signaling closer ties with Islamabad at a time when U.S.-Pakistani relations are spiraling downward. The appointment of Arsala Khan as honorary consul general in the northwestern Khyber Pukhtunkhwa province wasÃâà...
The Guardian
February 15, 2018
Pakistan is building a fence along its border with Afghanistan, and it wants Donald Trump to pay for it – or at least some of it. The 1,800-mile barrier being constructed will help end “the prolonged agony” of the Afghan war and reduce terrorism inside Pakistan, said Nasir Khan Janjua, the national securityÃâà...
Daily Times
December 31, 1999
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani and Afghan traders are developing a cross-border stakeholders' policy advocacy draft for reducing trust deficit and enhancing economic connectivity across the border. Businessmen from both countries, who met in Islamabad on Monday, sought meetings with the Afghan PresidentÃâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
December 31, 1999
Despite a suspension of $1.3 billion in U.S. military aid in January, Pakistan has failed to take decisive action to crack down on Afghan militants on its territory, either by arresting known militants or restricting the flow of fighters and weapons across its border with Afghanistan, U.S. officials said. “What I wouldÃâà...
The Express Tribune
December 31, 1999
The Afghan news outlets alleged that Pakistani forces had crossed the Durand Line into Paktia province, a claim Islamabad quashed. by the Pakistan Embassy ... made by Kabul regarding the alleged clashes between Pakistani and Afghan security forces along the border area, according to Radio Pakistan.
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
December 31, 1999
Last month, Pakistani Taliban deputy chief Khan Said Mehsud, also known as Sajna, was also killed in a drone strike. Pakistani intelligence officials said Abdullah was killed in the Chawgam area in the eastern province of Kunar on March 6 when a training camp for suicide bombers near the Afghan borderÃâà...
Geo News, Pakistan
December 31, 1999
KARACHI: The social media network of Daesh was being operated from near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, sources in the Federal Investigation Agency quoted arrested terrorist Saif-ul-Islam Khilafati as saying. According to FIA sources, Khilafati has revealed that the network was being run by anotherÃâà...
Sputnik International
December 31, 1999
The Pakistan Air Force (PAF) has fielded a squadron of new Pakistan Aeronautical Complex JF-17 “Thunder” combat aircraft, according to a recent report by the Associated Press of Pakistan. The multi-role fighter jets are stationed at Pakistan's Samungli Base near Quetta, the provincial capital ofÃâà...
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