Pakistan building Afghan border fence

Pakistan’s military has begun building a fence along its mountainous 2,500km-long border with Afghanistan to curb the movement of Pakistani Taliban and Islamic State fighters based on neighbouring soil

Durand Line (disputed colonial-era border)
Taliban control
So-called Islamic State

Mar 26: Fencing started in tribal areas and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province

Feb 17, Sehwan: Suicide bomber attacks crowded Sufi shrine, killing at least 88 people. Since January, Taliban and IS attacks in Pakistan have killed more than 180 people and injured over 580 others

Kabul
Islamabad
Peshawar
Quetta
Karachi
Sehwan


KHYBER
PAKHTUNKHWA
TRIBAL
AREAS
AFGHANISTAN
CHINA
TAJIKISTAN
INDIA
IRAN
PAKISTAN
BALUCHISTAN
Arabian Sea
SINDH
PUNJAB
KASHMIR
160km
100 miles

Sources: Institute for the Study of War, Wall Street Journal