国产热热热精品,亚洲视频久久】日韩,三级婷婷在线久久,99人妻精品视频,精品九热人人肉肉在线,AV东京热一区二区,91po在线视频观看,久久激情宗合,青青草黄色手机视频

Make me your Homepage
left corner left corner
China Daily Website

The 'softer' solution to terror

Updated: 2013-08-06 08:09
By Zhang Yunbi ( China Daily)

Editor's note: China Daily continues its series of reports and human interest stories from neighboring countries in an effort to provide insight into topics relevant to China. Pakistan is the second installment.

The 'softer' solution to terror

A Pakistani paramilitary soldier poses for a photographer at a checkpoint after authorities reopened a road in Bara, a town in the Pakistan Khyber Tribal region along the Afghan border, on Saturday. More than 150,000 government troops have been deployed to the border area in recent years. Mohammad Sajjad / Associated Press

Pakistan's military says it has made progress in cracking down on Taliban terrorists, deploying large numbers of soldiers along its northern borders and reclaiming land from local fighters.

In recent years, Islamabad has also been emphasizing economic development as a means of combating further extremism.

Lieutenant Colonel Abid Ali Askari, additional director of Inter Services Public Relations, said that Pakistan has deployed more than 150,000 troops along the border with Afghanistan to help eradicate terrorist organizations, including the Taliban. As a result, the Taliban-controlled area in the north of Pakistan has shrunk from 14,900 square kilometers in 2008 to 1,200 sq km this year, the official said.

However, Askari said Pakistan was building on military gains by investing in the region's economic development, with the aim at exterminating local terrorism.

The Pakistani military's war with the Taliban has never been an easy one. The country's "inhospitable terrain" is a natural obstacle to military deployment in tracking terrorists and border trespassers. Mountainous or hilly terrain accounts for more than half of the country's territory.

Extreme weather, fragile communication infrastructure and the lack of civic amenities in the federally administered tribal areas along the border are also hampering the fight against terrorism, Askari said.

In addition, Pakistan is located at the crossroads of the continent, bordering India to the east, Iran and Afghanistan to the west, and China to the north.

Its geopolitical location poses challenges for the Pakistani authorities in their efforts to control trespassers and prevent foreign terrorists from entering the country, analysts said.

It is particularly difficult for the Pakistani military to monitor the mountainous border with Afghanistan, Askari said.

"Cross-border trade, commerce and intermarriages are common practices in the area, and tribal people move across the border freely," he said.

An estimated 12,000 vehicles and 31,000 people cross the Pakistan-Afghanistan border through various routes in Balochistan province every day, according to statistics provided by Askari's agency.

Previous Page 1 2 Next Page

 
...
...
南城县| 河间市| 屏山县| 呈贡县| 合川市| 虞城县| 宝应县| 阿克| 沾益县| 上犹县| 武邑县| 东乌| 北海市| 肇州县| 丹寨县| 乌拉特后旗| 镇江市| 萨迦县| 绩溪县| 威信县| 松阳县| 吉木萨尔县| 竹山县| 葵青区| 黑河市| 浦北县| 喀什市| 姜堰市| 衡阳市| 西吉县| 泰兴市| 正阳县| 银川市| 颍上县| 阳朔县| 阿拉尔市| 德清县| 慈利县| 扎囊县| 高邑县| 镇赉县|