Dawn
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15:46 Apr 01, 2026
The information ministry on Wednesday dismissed claims regarding the removal of the barbed wire along the Pak-Afghan border as “fabricated and devoid of facts”. In a post on X, the ministry’s fact-checking account denounced these “fake claims by the Afghan Taliban regime and Indian RAW’s (Indian intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing) mouthpieces”. It said that the Pak-Afghan border, also called the Durand Line, was 2,640 kilometres long and guarded by Pakistan. “The Taliban regime works hand in glove with terrorists, smugglers and criminal mafia to infiltrate [it],” it said, adding that the complex dynamics of the border had already been explained multiple times by relevant security officials. The ministry’s post also referred to a November 2025 press conference by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General (DG) Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, during which he spoke about terrorist infiltration through the Pak-Afghan border and challenges being faced in this regard. He had also said tha...