KHAR, April 16: Pakistan has deployed regular army and Frontier Corps personnel along the unfrequented routes leading to Afghanistan’s Kunar province from here and sealed the border.
Sources said the step had been taken to check infiltration of terrorists into the agency from across the border.
The sources said that the Mamond tribes had assured the authorities of full cooperation in setting up a checkpoint in the border areas.
The political administration had convened a meeting of Mamond tribal elders and took them into confidence over the deployment of army and Frontier Corps personnel in the border areas.
This is the first time that regular troops have been deployed in areas falling in the jurisdiction of Mamond subdivision.
The authorities have also ordered an increase in the number of paramilitary troops and Frontier Corps personnel to check cross-border movement in the agency. Eyewitnesses said that several contingents of army had reached the agency.
Residents of the area said that the Frontier Corps had also started work on a road project to make access to the border areas possible. Officials said that the army and paramilitary forces had been deployed to the far-flung areas to secure the country’s border and check infiltration from Afghanistan.
Sources in Mamond, Chaharmang and Salarzai areas said that security forces were setting up checkpoints along the unfrequented routes in the border areas.
