Joint check-post on Sindh-Balochistan border planned

04 Sep, 2011

A joint force of FIA, Coast Guards and Frontier Constabulary will be established on Sindh-Balochistan border to check movement of terrorists and smuggling of arms. This was decided at a meeting here on Saturday chaired by Interior Minister Rehman Malik.
The meeting was also attended by FIA's Sindh Director Moazzam Jah, Deputy Director FIA Immigration Malik Subeh Saddiq, head of FIA Counter Terrorism Azad Khan, and Director General Coast Guards, Brigadier Shahryar Khan. The Minister said the purpose of the post would be to monitor and control the movement of terrorists and check inter-provincial gun-running and curb smuggling of fuel from Iran via Balochistan province. All the concerned authorities will co-ordinate with each other to establish the check posts, the meeting was informed.

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