hussain0216
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Why AF-PAK border can never be shutdown
Its amusing to read comments when people suggest to shutdown the afghan border as if its some gate. The infiltrators / terrorists even can penetrate the most secure locations of your country which have perimeter wall of just 1 kilometer. Imagine if you have to guard a 50 kilometer wall, how you would do that ?? Now try to image that there's no wall at all but vastness of 2700 km that includes several villages lying right over the border line, rivers passing over & parallel to border line, caves & mountains, and what not. There's just infinite number of ways to cross such a border.
You want to stop infiltration? think of something else .
You can only manage the situation, removing the Afghan refugee population is a start,
You need to limit the amount of population the Afghan terrorists operate under
Fundamentally your trying to target individuals, leaders or afghans in the process of terrorism and that could go on forever
what you have to understand their are 35 million afghans, they need trade, food, people to buy their crap, access to ports, across across the Pakistani border etc
all this just to feed the Afghan population,
at the moment we are involved with fighting Afghan terrorists and the rest of the Afghan population doesn't care, they can even support the terrorists and still get access to Pakistan
what you need to do is put pressure on the Afghan population, that will then put pressure on the Taliban and TTP to knock off the fassad
So any and all refugees need to be removed
The border can be secured against the majority of the Afghan population
Trade can be curtailed if needs be,
Port access can be denied
Fundamentally the message needs to be clear if the Afghans wants friendship and trade and easy movement of people then it needs to act like a neighbour not a enemy
You can't have these two things occuring at the same time
Once the Afghan population starts to feel the squeeze then the Taliban and Afghan state will be forced to act, because it won't have any options
You can't offer the hand of friendship to a state and people who are constantly trying to attack you