Pakistan has decided to start fencing the porous Pakistan-Afghan border at Chaman to stop the illegal influx of visitors from the other side, a security official said on Wednesday. “Work on fencing at the border will be started very soon,” Brigadier Nadeem Sohail, the sector commander of Frontier Corps Balochistan told a tribal jirga. Tribal elders from Chaman and various surrounding villages participated in the jirga, where ways and means to ensure legal movement at the border were discussed. The jirga decided for the evacuation of population from the red zone – houses located at the border – to ensure legal movement and safety. “Villagers will be compensated as per their documents,” Brigadier Sohail said. Brigadier Sohail said all arrangements had been made and work on fencing would start soon. “Both Pakistan and Afghanistan would benefit from this move,” he said. Published in Daily Times, February 8th 2018.