233 forts built, 802km fencing on Pak-Afghan border completed: DG ISPR

ISLAMABAD: The fencing of 2,611 kilometer long Pak-Afghan border would be completed by December 2019, Director General Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) Major General Asif Ghafoor said on Saturday.

In a tweet, he said the work on the forts and fence continued on the Pak-Afghan border as 233 of 843 forts and fencing of 802 out of 1,200 kilometers priority one areas has been completed.

He said the border fencing would benefit peaceful people of the two countries, besides restricting terrorists. They are aiming at speedy completion of the work in priority one areas, he added.