ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Interior Ministry on Friday said 48 additional border posts have been constructed on the border with Afghanistan to curb smuggling.
The smuggling of illegal weapons has been curtailed in Pakistan after the start of operations Zarb-e-Azb and Radd-ul-Fasaad, said National Assembly member Dr. Muhammad Afzal Khan Dhandla, adding that 207 illegal weapons were confiscated in the last year.
Items smuggled to and from Afghanistan include medicines, food items, used electronics, home appliances, clothes, automobile tires and spare parts, and cosmetics.
Pakistan recently opened the Ghulam Khan border crossing in North Waziristan, on the border with Afghanistan, in a bid to facilitate the movement of people on both sides and regulate trade to discourage smuggling.
Pakistan shares a 2,430-km long border with Afghanistan that is largely unmanned in many areas, providing opportunities for smuggling and terrorist infiltration.
In December 2017, Pakistan said it had completed almost 92 percent of a border fence that will be completed by the end of this year.
48 new border posts constructed on Pak-Afghan border
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