Pakistan-Afghanistan border News
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
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday ordered the re-opening of the two main border crossings to Afghanistan.
Two police personnel and six suspected militants from across the Pakistan-Afghanistan border were killed after an assault on a checkpost in Khyber Agency on Friday.
Chaman is one of the busiest crossing points along with Torkham. More than 50,000 people, mostly Afghans, travel across the two facilities each day.
Tension remained high at a Pakistan-Afghanistan border crossing as firing between forces of the two countries claimed the lives of five Afghans, including three soldiers, since Sunday, while a Pakistani Army major wounded in the clashes died on Wednesday.
A cable declassified by the United States' National Security Archive has revealed that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI, had financed the 2009 terror attack at a camp of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Afghanistan.
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