Afghan-Pakistani Border

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A long-standing border dispute between Islamabad and Kabul has bolstered the view from Pakistan that it must seek to contain Afghanistan and keep in check Afghan nationalists who might otherwise assert claims to Pakistani territory.
 
Pakistani paramilitary troops guard a border checkpost in North Waziristan, in western Pakistan\'s volatile Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) Afghan nationals brought to Pakistan\'s Chaman border-crossing for handover to Afghan authorities after their detention for traveling on false documents Afghan refugees return from Pakistan in April 2007 under a UN-backed voluntary-repatriation plan A doctor attends to a sick child who is among the displaced persons in the Afghan border town of Spin Boldak A Pakistani tribesman works among opium poppies in the FATA\'s Muhmand Agency, near the Afghan border Three Taliban prisoners -- two Pakistanis and an Afghan -- who confessed to having crossed the border from Pakistan on a U.S. soldiers burn a suspected Taliban shelter on the Afghan-Pakistani border in March 2007 Afghan President Hamid Karzai gestures toward visiting Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz in January 2007 A Pakistani paramilitary troop frisks a Pashtun tribesman as he crosses the border Pakistani troops fence part of the Afghan border near Chaman in January 2007 A masked tribesman patrols near Wana, in South Waziristan, where torrid fighting that pitted tribesmen against Uzbek and other foreign militants in March 2007 left more than 100 dead Tribal elders from Khyber, one of the seven semi-autonomous agencies in the FATA, meet in Peshawar in May 2006 to discuss ways to quell violence in North Waziristan A Pakistani Army soldier looks out over the rugged Afghan-Pakistani border from the Pakistani tribal belt
 

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