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Pakistan proposes Afghan border fencing
By: Abrar Saeed | Published: July 04, 2009- Digg
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ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has proposed a border fencing between Afghanistan and Pakistan on the pattern of ‘US-Maxico model’ to check the uncontrolled, illegal crossings, particularly of militants, terrorists and drug-trafficking from Afghanistan into Pakistan, and in this connection sought the active support of United States.
Premier Gilani was talking to the US Secretary for Homeland Security, Janet Napilitano who called on him at the Prime Minister House on Friday.
Referring to the US Secretary for Homeland Security’s initiative as Governor of Arizona about erecting a wall between the US and Mexico border, he said that a similar pattern of fencing between Pakistan and Afghanistan could be followed to stop infiltration and drug-trafficking.
The Prime Minister underlined the fact that the international support to Pakistan for the displaced persons of Malakand Division so far had been inadequate.
He said that Pakistan had made innumerable sacrifices in terms of life and material losses in the ongoing military operation. He urged the US and the international donors to deliver on their pledges made in Friends of Democratic Pakistan’s meeting in Tokyo.
He also called for immediate provision of military hardware including Cobra helicopters, technology transfer as well as financial assistance to build the capacity of Pakistan’s law enforcement agencies.
He said that it would prepare the security personnel to effectively control the affected areas after the military operation came to a successful conclusion in Malakand division and Waziristan agencies. The Prime Minister asked the US Secretary for Homeland Security to facilitate PIA’s direct flights operations to the US destinations.
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