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Govt asked to stop fencing, ditching along Durand Line

KABUL and shouldn’t remain silent. Senator Jumaddin Gianwal told Tuesday’s session said Pakistan was currently fencing and digging trenches from Kandahar to Paktia provinces along the Durand Line. He stressed the government should not remain silent on issue. Shir Mohammad…

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Afghan govt says won’t allow border fencing

KABUL and would hold talks on the issue soon with Islamabad. In a video clip sent to Pajhwok Afghan News, the deputy presidential spokesman, Najib Azad, said the people and the governments of Afghanistan had never accepted the Durand Line…

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Ongoing unrest in Afghanistan linked to Durand Line

The ongoing problems in Afghanistan, a senior researcher said on Monday. Dr. Abdullah Hiwad, head of Navin Research and Studies Center (NRSC), told a press conference in Jalalabad, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province, that the Afghan government…

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No enmity with Pakistan over Durand Line: Karzai

KABUL. Karzai was addressing a gathering regarding the Durand Line in Kabul. The former president said the Durand Line had been imposed by then imperialistic forces on Afghans. “When the line was imposed on us, Pakistan was not created. Afghanistan…

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NSC concerned at border violations by Pakistan

KABUL military, saying such acts amount to spurning the international law and conventions. The issue was raised during a meeting of the National Security Council (NSC), chaired by President Ashraf Ghani on Tuesday evening. While denouncing Monday’s suicide bombing of…

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KP governor hints at leniency to Afghan traders, patients

The cross-border movement of Afghan traders and patients would be made lenient under a more flexible policy, the governor of Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province has promised. However, Iqbal Zafar Jhagra reiterated that strict border management had…

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Af-Pak tension de-escalates as major border crossing reopened

A key border crossing between Afghanistan. The agreement on reopening the Torkham border crossing in the evening came at a meeting between Afghan Ambassador Dr. Omar Zakhilwal and Chief of Army Staff Gen. Raheel Sharif in the garrison…

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Karzai says will never forgo Durand Line claim

KABUL. The former president was addressing a day-long seminar in Kabul titled “Gandamak – Durand, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow” organised by the Afghan Research and Advisory Centre. Karzai said discussions about the Gandamak and Durand treaties were vital, calling the…

Pakistan seals Durand Line in Parachinar

KABUL in tribal region of Kurram as part of security arrangement for Yaum-i-Ashur (the 10th of Muharram), a media report said on Thursday. The border was closed in Parachinar, a sectarian hot spot in northwestern Pakistan, where Shiite and Sunni…

Islamabad plans border trade, transit traffic regime

KABUL government, planning to put in place a border management regime to deal with increased trade and transit traffic through Torkham and Chaman borders, has approached the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for assistance. The ADB was likely to give Islamabad…

Kamdesh comes under cross-border strike

JALALABAD (PAN's soil, an official said on Friday. Dozens of missiles had landed in Gordesh area since Thursday night, Nuristan's acting police chief told Pajhwok Afghan News. Col. Farooq Nuristani said at least one person had been killed and three…

Karzai, Kerry confer on border tiff, security pact

KABUL): President Hamid Karzai and US Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday conferred on regional issues of common interest, the Presidential Palace said. The latest Afghanistan-US trilateral meeting in Brussels came under discussion during the telephone call in the…

Pakistan says border post spat resolved

ISLAMABADA (PAN-led reconciliation and recent border skirmishes. “Pakistan is in regular contact with Afghan authorities, including military-to-military contact,” a foreign ministry spokesman told a regular weekly media briefing in Islamabad on Thursday. The border post spat had been resolved, Foreign Office…