Possible US Troop Exit Prompts Pakistan to Accelerate Afghan Border Fencing

GHULAM KHAN, PAKISTAN-AFGHAN BORDER — 

Pakistan says a unilateral construction effort will have fenced off nearly half of its largely porous border with Afghanistan before the spring fighting season in the neighboring country. Military officials say the pace of the massive border security project has lately been accelerated to guard against a possible spill over of “terrorism” from Afghanistan in the event of a widely anticipated U.S. military drawdown there.

The military recently flew a group of journalists to the North Waziristan border district to showcase the installation of the pair of nine-foot chicken wire fences, with a six-foot gap, and topped with barbed wire along the nearly 2,600 kilometer Afghan border.

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