AF/PAK Border

[CENTCOM]

As you might have heard or read, today, the Taliban conducted another suicide attack on the Torkham Check Post at the AF/PAK border. Zabiullah Mujahid claimed responsibility for the three suicide attackers that ended the lives of at least 6 people, including members of the Afghan border police and destruction of private tankers. Only a few weeks ago, soldiers of the U.S Army, visited the border to get better situational awareness of the techniques and procedures the ABP use to help secure the border from militant infiltration. Recently, ISAF Commander General Dunford, visited Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif as part of his routine coordination visit to discuss Pakistan-Afghanistan Border coordination mechanism. Militants travelling from one country into the other have been a significant security concern for not only NATO but for Pakistan and Afghanistan, whose citizens are being targeted through suicide attacks and bombs. We have and are continuously working together with both countries to improve border security, and so it is unfortunate to witness the deaths of Afghan Border Police and the Frontier Corps who are bravely fulfilling their duty at the cost of their lives. Despite the fact that Islamic Scholars have declared suicide attacks as un-Islamic, still there are people who are being brainwashed into killing themselves and other Muslims in this indiscriminant manner.

Here are some pictures of the U.S. Army coordinating with the Afghan Border Police a recent patrol at the Torkhan Check Post, AF/PAK Border.

Haroon Ahmad
DET – U.S. Central Command
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