Build the wall!
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https://news.yahoo.com/pakistan-army-completes-90-fencing-193727052.html
Pakistan’s military said Tuesday it has completed 90% of a fence being constructed along the border with Afghanistan, vowing to complete the project this summer.
Pakistan says it is constructing the fence to prevent cross-border militant attacks.
The announcement by the Pakistan army comes amid increasing violence in neighboring Afghanistan, where the Taliban have stepped up attacks ahead of a complete withdrawal of American troops from the war-torn country.
Pakistan started the fence along the 2,611-kilometer (1,622-mile) border with Afghanistan — known as the Durand Line — in 2017 when militants repeatedly launched cross-border attacks on Pakistani posts.
On Tuesday, a Pakistani military official, Col. Rizwan Nazir, told a group of foreign journalists at the key Torkham border crossing that the remaining 10% of the fence at the western border will be complete this year.
The border barrier between the two countries consists of two sets of chain-link fences separated by a 2-meter (6.5-foot) space that has been filled with concertina wire coils. The double fence is about 4 meters (13 feet) high. The military has installed surveillance cameras to check any movement along the border.
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Walls don't work. Mr. Biden told me so
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@george-k said in Build the wall!:
@jolly said in Build the wall!:
Walls don't work. Mr. Biden told me so
Well, in fairness to Joe, this isn't really a wall. It's a 6 foot high fence - with razor wire on top, so that's totes different.
Yeah, but do you think it will work?
I don't.
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@doctor-phibes said in Build the wall!:
Yeah, but do you think it will work?
I don't.The Pakistanis do.
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@george-k said in Build the wall!:
@doctor-phibes said in Build the wall!:
Yeah, but do you think it will work?
I don't.The Pakistanis do.
Well, if ever there's a country with a successful and sophisticated approach to foreign policy....