ISLAMABAD – Director General Inter-Services Public Relations Major GeneralAsif Ghafoor has said that work on about nine hundred kilometer fence alongthe Pak-Afghan border has been completed.
He was briefing local and foreign media representatives at Ghulam Khan,North Waziristan, who visited Miranshah and other parts of the tribaldistrict along with him for the first time after military operations.
The DG ISPR said the full project is expected to be completed next yearthat would cost about seventy billion rupees. He said besides fencing, theproject also includes gadgets and surveillance equipment to keep strictvigil on illicit movement from across the border.
Major General Asif Ghafoor said the fence has amply helped to check themovement of terrorists from across the border and it would further assistafter completion of the project.
Earlier, briefing the media representatives at Corps Headquarters Peshawar,Commander 11 Corps Lt Gen Shaheen said after the end of war in the area,the troops are now in the process of consolidation.
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He said ninety five percent work of resettlement of Internally DisplacedPersons has already been accomplished.
He said following the operation against militants, there is no “No Go Area”in the erstwhile FATA.
The media representatives lauded Pakistan Army’s efforts for restoringpeace and development in North Waziristan. They appreciated security forcesfor undertaking the difficult task of fencing Pak-Afghan border.
