{"id":30721,"date":"2017-11-13T22:01:22","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T17:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=30721"},"modified":"2017-11-13T22:01:22","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T17:01:22","slug":"pakistan-paying-price-for-security-vacuum-on-afghan-side-of-the-border-ispr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=30721","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan paying price for security vacuum on Afghan side of the border: ISPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"line-height: 20.25pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0in 0in 20.25pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: #212121; letter-spacing: .1pt;\"><strong>Rawalpindi, Nov. 13 (TNS):<\/strong> Pakistan Army\u2019s chief spokesperson said on Monday that the country is paying the price for security vacuum on Afghan side of the border.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 20.25pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0in 0in 20.25pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: #212121; letter-spacing: .1pt;\">In a series of tweets, Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor, the director general of the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), said that Pakistan has done its part including cleared all areas of terrorists, border fencing, building new check posts, enhanced presence along Pak-Afghan border and established\u00a0of crossing points.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 20.25pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0in 0in 20.25pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: #212121; letter-spacing: .1pt;\">The DG ISPR remarks came after two Pakistani servicemen \u2013 among them a captain \u2013 were martyred in a cross-border attack by Afghanistan-based terrorists in Bajaur Agency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 20.25pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0in 0in 20.25pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: #212121; letter-spacing: .1pt;\">\u201cMore efforts are required on Afghanistan side by all stake holders,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 20.25pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0in 0in 20.25pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: #212121; letter-spacing: .1pt;\">While talking about the militant hideouts in the war-torn country, Maj-Gen Asif Ghafoor said, \u201cIt now requires elimination of terrorist sanctuaries in Afghanistan and effective Afghan border security.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 20.25pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0in 0in 20.25pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: #212121; letter-spacing: .1pt;\">Lives of forces and citizens equally precious on both sides of the border, he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 20.25pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0in 0in 20.25pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: #212121; letter-spacing: .1pt;\">Moreover,\u00a0Pakistani officials have repeatedly said that the Taliban terrorists, who fled a series of military\u00a0operations\u00a0in tribal regions, have found safe havens in northern, eastern and northeastern Afghanistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-30722 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Capture-9.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"494\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Capture-9.png 494w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Capture-9-300x115.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rawalpindi, Nov. 13 (TNS): Pakistan Army\u2019s chief spokesperson said on Monday that the country is paying the price for security vacuum on Afghan side of the border. In a series of tweets, Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor, the director general of the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), said that Pakistan has done its part including cleared all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-rawalpindi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30724,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30721\/revisions\/30724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}