Durand Line News

Taliban officials described the strikes as retaliation for Pakistan’s airstrikes on Afghan territory earlier this week, which allegedly targeted hideouts of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). 

The Durand Line is the de facto border between Afghanistan and Pakistan It was unilaterally carved out by the British in 1883 British diplomat Mortimer Durand was largely responsible for creating this line

The Pakistani army stopped speaking in front of the fighters of Afghanistan. The Pakistani army, which was trying to put up a fence on the Durand Line, was not only chased away by the Afghan fighters but the barbed wire and poles put up by the Pakistani army were demolished by the Taliban fighters.

Afghan envoy to the United Nations Ghulam M. Isaczai was speaking at United Nations Security Council Afghan President Ashraf Ghani had publically slammed Pakistani PM Imran Khan for his country's support to the group and terror elements

India has slammed Pakistan at the UNSC for destabilising Afghanistan. India said that the "terror flow across the Durand Line should stop".

In a veiled attack on Pakistan, Afghanistan on Thursday said it wants the international community to take action against countries using non-state actors to further their foreign policy goals.

The Pakistan Army said the "phased fencing of entire Pakistan-Afghanistan border has commenced".  

Former Afghan president Hamid Karzai has refuted what he termed as the Pakistani perception about India`s growing influence in Afghanistan.

General Qamar Javed Bajwa said initial fencing will focus on "high threat zones" of Bajaur and Mohmand agencies in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).