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India-Pakistan
Shoot-on-sight orders over illegal entry from Afghanistan
2017-02-20
[DAWN] QUETTA: As Pakistain’s border with Afghanistan at Chaman remains closed on the second consecutive day on Saturday, authorities issued shoot-at-sight orders for those found trying to cross over.

The Friendship Gate was closed on Friday as part of tightening security in the wake of the suicide kaboom on the shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar in Sehwan town of Sindh in which nearly 90 people bit the dust and over 340 others suffered injuries.

As a result, traffic and transit trade between Pakistain and Afghanistan also remained suspended.

"Shooting order has been issued to the security forces for those...found trying to enter...Pakistain illegally from any area of the border," security officials said. "The Friendship Gate at Pak-Afghan border [has been] sealed for [an] indefinite period," a Frontier Corps
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front man said.

"There will be no traffic between Pakistain and Afghanistan for an indefinite period," border officials said.

Shops in the Vash Mandi area across the border in Afghanistan were closed and traders in Chaman also did not open their businesses in protest against the terrorist attacks in Pakistain.

Hundreds of trucks and long vehicles carrying transit trade goods and NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure....
supplies have been stranded on both sides of the border.

Official sources said that after the recent kabooms in Quetta, Lahore, Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
and Sehwan more FC troops have been deployed along the border with Afghanistan.
Posted by:Fred

#3  Much better to channel the incoming traffic with walls and fences

That would preclude moving Talibs from Pakistain into Afghanistan.
Posted by: Pappy   2017-02-20 12:38  

#2  "Shooting order has been issued to the security forces for those...found trying to enter...Pakistain illegally from any area of the border,"

Gotta remember, this order requires 1:1 preventative engagements of 'shooter-bullet-crosser'. That requires staging as many shooters as potential simultaneous border transgressors. Much better to channel the incoming traffic with walls and fences.
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-02-20 11:50  

#1   authorities issued shoot-at-sight orders for those found trying to cross over.


We don't need no stinking fence.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-02-20 09:47  

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