NBC: Pakistan is building a fence along border with Afghanistan

In this file photo, Pakistani soldiers keep vigil next to newly fenced border fencing along with Afghan's Paktika province border in Angoor Adda in Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal agency on Oct. 18, 2017. (AFP)

May 17: NBC News report by Mushtaq Yusufzai, Francia Whittaker, Wajahat S. Khan and Ahmed Mengli states that Pakistan is spending around $483 million to build chain-link fences along its porous 1,500-mile border with Afghanistan. The project aims to curtail the flow of terrorists between the two countries. It follows a yearslong Pakistani military push aimed at dismantling militant networks in its restive tribal North and South Waziristan regions.

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