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Afghanistan
Afghanistan ‘will do all it can’ to stop Pakistan border fence
2007-04-25
KABUL - Afghanistan will use all means to stop Pakistan erecting a fence on their border to stop the movement of Taleban militants, the foreign ministry said Tuesday.
'cause there's no grievance like an old grievance ...
The ministry also denied Afghanistan had apologised for an incident last week in which its troops tore down part of the new fence being erected by Pakistani soldiers, sparking a gun battle which caused no casualties.

Pakistani foreign ministry spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam said in Islamabad the incident was raised in a commission of the Afghan, Pakistan and NATO-led militaries and ‘there was an apology.’

This was rejected by her Afghan counterpart, Sultan Ahmad Baheen. The ministry had this week summoned the Pakistan ambassador in Kabul to lodge a protest about the fence, he told AFP. ‘We will use all legal tools to stop this fence,’ he said. ‘It is not a solution to crossborder attacks, it divides families living in the area.’

Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf, a key US ally, announced late last year plans to fence 35 kilometres (22 miles) of the 2,500-kilometre border to stop the movement of militants Kabul says are involved in attacks inside Afghanistan. Kabul, which does not recognise the border drawn up by colonial Britain in 1893, has written to United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon to express ‘deep concern’ over the issue.
'deep concern'? Them's almost fightin' words at the UN!
But Pakistani officials have said they are determined to go ahead with the fencing. An earlier plan to mine the border to stop militants was dropped after widespread international criticism.
Posted by:Steve White

#5  Sadly, and I do believe that it is sad that it will have to come to this, but I think Pakistan is the place that is going to get glassed, particularly the tribal region. It is the region that has taken the Saudi poison and drank it by the gallon. Every day they demonstrate that they are becoming progrssively more insane. There will come a time when they do something really stupid and that will be the end of them.
Posted by: remoteman   2007-04-25 13:03  

#4  boy howdy! Absorbing those former "Pakis" certainly will help Afghanistan's stability.....

I don't think so...the people are the problem
Posted by: Frank G   2007-04-25 12:13  

#3   moat with gators
Gila Monsters, tarantulas, and scorpions would be more appropriate in Afghanistan, but a trench filled with land mines would work. Unfortunately, the reason Afghanistan refuses to allow the fence is because the border is in very hot dispute. The Durand Line is a British-drawn fiction. The Afghanistan border should be the Indus River, and India should control the other bank. Pakistan is a piece of islamocrap, and needs to disappear.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2007-04-25 11:47  

#2  Nah, Piranhas.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2007-04-25 06:13  

#1  moat with gators
Posted by: Captain America   2007-04-25 00:57  

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