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COVID-19 Not Affecting Afghan Border Fencing, Pakistan Army Says

Ayaz Gul

   ISLAMABAD - Officials in Pakistan say a unilateral construction effort
   has erected a robust fence along "more than 70%" of the country's
   roughly 2,600-kilometer border with Afghanistan, and the coronavirus
   pandemic has not hampered the work.
   Pakistan has reported a relatively low number of cases of COVID-19,
   with more than 21,500 infections and nearly 500 deaths.
   The army-led, roughly $500 million project to secure the largely porous
   and historically open frontier was launched in 2017, and officials
   expect it to be finished by the end of this year or by summer 2021.

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