Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, Deputy Foreign Minister of the Afghan Interim Government, said that the Taliban security forces were ready and if anyone looked at our borders with contempt or aggression, their eyes would be taken out.
According to Al-Fatah Corps military personnel in the northern zone on December 26, Abbas Stanekzai said that the forces of the Islamic Emirate will retaliate strongly against those who intend to attack the borders of Afghanistan.
“We have sacrificed 20 years for this country and we are ready to fight another 20 to save it,” he said.
Earlier, on December 24, the Chief of Army Staff of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, Qari Fasihuddin, during a visit to Nangarhar Province, said that they were committed to good neighborliness but would not remain silent if anyone invaded their territory.
He did so on the occasion of his visit to Lalpura district of Nangarhar where he closely observed the preparations of the security forces.
It may be recalled that a few days ago, the Intelligence Department of Nangarhar allegedly stopped the Pakistani forces from laying barbed wire in Paluchi area of ​​Lalpura district.
Such statements by Taliban leaders come after the Taliban prevented Pakistani officials from erecting a fence on the Pak-Afghan border. Inayatullah Khawarizmi, a spokesman for the Afghan Ministry of Defense, was quoted as saying that Taliban forces on December 19 prevented the Pakistani army from erecting an illegal border fence with the eastern province of Nangarhar.
Videos of border fences being erected by Taliban officials are also circulating on social media. According to Afghan journalists, the video shows the Taliban’s Kandahar intelligence chief blocking Pakistani border officials from erecting a fence.
The Pakistani Foreign Office has not yet issued a formal statement on the matter. However, while talking on December 23, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said that the work of erecting a fence on the Pak-Afghan border is almost complete. But Afghan officials are aware of Pakistan’s sincere efforts for the Afghan people, we have an ideal relationship with them.
Shah Mehmood Qureshi said that we are erecting a fence inside our border. We have not given the opportunity to create misunderstandings between the two countries before and will not do so in future. However, he made it clear that the border should be secured and regulated. Will continue to work.
On a video that went viral on social media about the Afghan Taliban’s breach of the fence, Shah Mehmood Qureshi said that he must have seen it, it may be an old video, so the matter needs to be confirmed.
It should be noted that the Pak-Afghan border is called the Durand Line which Pakistan considers as a permanent border but Afghanistan does not recognize its status at the official level and the position of every elected and unelected government formed in Afghanistan has remained almost the same. Is.
In 2017, when Pakistan began installing border fences in areas adjacent to Afghanistan to curb terrorism and other illegal activities, representatives of the former Afghan government raised various objections while the Taliban also opposed it. Calling it an unnecessary project, he said it would cause problems for people on both sides of the border.
On the other hand, Pakistan is of the view that it has the right to erect a fence on the international border and Pakistan has always rejected the objections raised by Afghanistan on this issue.
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