RAWALPINDI – Pakistan will deploy 60,000 more troops at Pak Afghan borderto curtail movement of militants, Bloomberg citing military officialsreported.

The military officials requested for anonymity informed The Bloomberg that40 percent of the aforementioned number of troops has already beenrecruited in the exercise and it will likely take two years.

The military officials also said about 13 percent of the fencing atPak-Afghan border, which is 1456 miles long area, has also been completed.

The Pak-Afghan border has 235 crossing points and it is porous. Somecrossing points are used by the militants and drug traffickers, accordingto the report.