In Pictures: Pak-Afghan border fencing in Shawwal

Army officers work in extreme conditions

PESHAWAR:

The Pakistan Army has continued to fence the country’s border with Afghanistan despite extreme weather, heavy snowfall and difficult terrain.

The Pakistan Army completed fencing of the first 482-km long patch of the 1,403km long Pakistan-Afghanistan border in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) by December last year. The fence is provided with security cameras and motion detectors.

The military-led construction effort went into action last year. It has already fenced off about a 150-kilometer portion of the border identified as “highly prone” to terrorist infiltration.

The pair of nine-foot wire fences, with a six-foot gap, and topped with barbed wire, runs along rugged terrain and snow-capped mountains as high as 12,000 feet. Officials estimate the project will cost about $550 million.