Afghan Taliban to not permit any fencing alongside Durand Line by Pakistan

Afghanistan’s Taliban regime has stated that it’ll not permit fencing by Pakistan in any type alongside the Durand Line, issuing a stern warning to Islamabad, amid escalating tensions between the neighbouring international locations on the contentious subject of border fencing, a media report stated.

“We (Taliban) will not allow the fencing anytime, in any form. Whatever they (Pakistan) did before, they did, but we will not allow it anymore. There will be no fencing anymore,” Mawllawi Sanaullah Sangin, Commander of the Taliban, informed Afghanistan’s Tolo News on Wednesday.Sangin’s sharp response comes following Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi’s feedback earlier this week, when he stated this subject can be resolved peacefully, by diplomatic channels.“Certain miscreants are raising the issue unnecessarily, but we are looking into it. We are in contact with the Afghan government. Hopefully, we would be able to resolve the issue diplomatically,” Qureshi stated throughout a press convention in Islamabad on Monday.The Durand Line, the two,670-km worldwide border between Afghanistan and Pakistan has witnessed periodic skirmishes between forces of those two international locations.Last month, a conflict was reported alongside the south-eastern Nimroz province after Pakistani forces tried to increase barbed fences into the Afghan territory, with the Taliban forces promptly retaliating by tearing them down.Similarly, on December 22, each side had been at loggerheads once more, this time alongside the jap Nangarhar province, based on Afghanistan-based Khama Press information company.Pakistan has accomplished virtually 90 per cent fencing work alongside the two,670-km border regardless of protests from Kabul, who contested the century-old British-era boundary demarcation that splits households on both facet.Successive regimes in Afghanistan, together with the US-backed governments previously have disputed this demarcation, which has traditionally remained a contentious subject between the 2 neighbours.The border, identified internationally because the Durand Line, was named after the British civil servant, Mortimer Durrand, who had mounted the boundaries of British India after session with the then Afghan authorities in 1893.