Pakistan has announced the completion of 90% of the fence it is building on its border with Afghanistan to prevent all kinds of illegal crossings.
This was stated by Colonel Rizwan Nazir, commander of Pakistani border units, in a statement to reporters in Torkham border city with Afghanistan on Tuesday.
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Nazir explained that the total length of the fence with Afghanistan is 2,670 kilometers.
He added that the remaining part will be completed by 2022.
Nazir said that his country has fully secured its borders with Afghanistan.
He added that if a civil war breaks out in Afghanistan, they have a mechanism to control border crossings.
Pakistan began laying a barbed wire fence on its border with Afghanistan in June 2017.
Afghanistan has been in war since 2001 when an international military coalition led by Washington overthrew the Taliban regime.
At the time, it was linked to Al-Qaeda, which claimed the September 11 attacks of the same year in the United States.
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Since the beginning of last May, the level of violence in Afghanistan has escalated with the start of the final stage of the withdrawal of US forces by order of President Joe Biden, which is scheduled to be completed by August 31.
During the last three months, the Taliban targeted more than 161 police stations in 85 districts.
It controlled 51 of them in the north of the Asian country and is still increasing its pressure on the security forces in 14 other districts.
