The fencing work on Pakistan-Afghanistan border will complete by the end of next year, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Major General Asif Ghafoor said in a tweet on Saturday. “802km out of 1,200km has been covered and work on 233 out of 843 forts has been completed in pri 1 areas,” he said, adding that the total length of the fenced border will be 2,611 kilometres. He said the armed forces are aiming a speedy completion of the project in ‘pri 1 areas’, adding that the full project will be completed by the end of 2019. MajGen Ghafoor said the fenced border, once completed, will benefit the peaceful people of Pakistan and Afghanistan while restricting terrorists, The military-led construction effort went into action last year. The pair of nine-foot wire fences, with a six-foot gap, and topped with barbed wire, runs along rugged terrain and snow-capped mountains as high as 12,000 feet. Officials estimate the project will cost over $550 million. Published in Daily Times, December 16th2018.