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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Wednesday, November 08, 2006 
<b>Kabul rejects proposal to fence border</b>
KABUL: Afghanistan said on Tuesday it would “never accept” the fencing of its border with Pakistan after Islamabad renewed the proposal amid pressure to stop the cross-border movement of militants.

The border, called the Durand Line, was drawn by the colonial British more than a century ago and is not accepted by Afghanistan, which is suspicious of attempts to have it internationally recognised. Pakistani Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri on Sunday repeated his country’s proposal to fence the 2,500-kilometre border. A spokesman for President Hamid Karzai reiterated strong rejection of the idea, saying the militancy must be stopped at its roots. “Terrorism cannot be rooted out by fencing the Durand Line,” Karim Rahimi told reporters. afp<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->