More than 100 border outposts have been built in Afghanistan

According to Afghan media, after the Taliban regained power in Afghanistan, more than 100 new border posts have been built along the border with Pakistan.

Press reports indicate that the new border posts were constructed on the orders of the Afghan Minister of Defense in areas of the border that had previously been subject to attacks by Pakistani border guards.

Representatives of the Taliban stated that the new border posts were built in areas where Afghanistan was unable to construct border posts under previous Pakistani governments.

Previously, Pakistani border guards, under the pretext of strengthening their borders, installed barbed wire along most of the length of the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

Afghanistan borders Pakistan to the south and east. The border between the two countries is marked by the Durand Line — a largely unmarked boundary between Afghanistan and Pakistan. The length of the Durand Line is 2,640 kilometers.

The agreement on the Durand Line was signed in 1893 between Afghan Emir Abdur Rahman Khan and Mortimer Durand, the secretary of the Indian colonial administration. After Pakistan gained independence in 1947, the Pakistani authorities recognized this line as the state border, but the Afghan authorities still do not recognize it.