Pakistan Starts Building Fence Along Border With Afghanistan - WSJ
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By Saeed Shah
March 26, 2017 3:11 p.m. ET
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—Pakistan said it has begun building a fence along its border with Afghanistan, a move that could further rile relations between the two countries, each of which blames the other for harboring terrorists.
Kabul doesn’t recognize hundreds of miles of Pakistan’s mountainous northwest border, which was drawn up under British colonial rule. Pakistan in February closed the border for “security reasons” for more than a month, to protests from landlocked Afghanistan, reopening it on March 20.
Militants from Pakistan have relocated in Afghanistan and use its territory to stage attacks into Pakistan, Islamabad says.