{"id":82230,"date":"2016-06-15T09:05:52","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T09:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/border-forces-on-high-alert-at-crossing-points\/"},"modified":"2016-06-15T09:05:52","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T09:05:52","slug":"border-forces-on-high-alert-at-crossing-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/border-forces-on-high-alert-at-crossing-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Border forces on high alert at crossing points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"365\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/6 June\/13  Jun\/afghan trops.jpg\" width=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KANDAHAR CITY\/ GARDEZ (SW): Following tension at the eastern Torkham crossing point with Pakistan, additional troops have been deployed at the Dand-e-Pathan in Paktia and Spin Boldak in Kandahar provinces.<\/p>\n<p>Emerging reports suggest Pakistan has deployed additional troops at the Spin Boldak crossing point with Afghanistan in the south.<\/p>\n<p>Similar arrangements have been made by the Afghan government by directing the Afghan Border Police (ABP) to be on high alert in Kandahar.<\/p>\n<p>Razaq Barq, Salam Watandar&rsquo;s freelance contributor in Quetta has informed that a large number of border forces from both countries have arrived at the Wesh-Spin Boldak crossing point at the Durand Line.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, officials in the south eastern Paktia province have said that Pakistani forces wished to erect military installations at the zero point on Dand-e-Pathan crossing point.<\/p>\n<p>Qadir Gul Zadran, security chief for Paktia said that the Afghan Border Police stopped this move by the Pakistani forces. &ldquo;They tried to establish new installments within near 150 meter to the Durand Line but we stopped them&rdquo;, he said.<\/p>\n<p>This comes days after on and off deadly skirmishes at the Torkham crossing point between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following tension at the eastern Torkham crossing point with Pakistan, additional troops have been deployed at the Dand-e-Pathan in Paktia and Spin Boldak in Kandahar provinces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-82230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}