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    Pakistan asks Trump to help fund border fence with Afghanistan

    It tells US president the 1,800-mile barrier will help end the Afghan war and reduce terrorism
    by Patrick Wintour in Miranshah Feb 15, 2018 4 minutes
    A Pakistani soldier keeps guard at the Friendship Gate, a crossing point on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border at Chaman. Photograph: Saeed Achakzai/Reuters

    Pakistan is building a fence along its border with Afghanistan, and it wants Donald Trump to pay for it – or at least some of it.

    The 1,800-mile barrier being constructed will help end “the prolonged agony” of the Afghan war and reduce terrorism inside Pakistan, said Nasir Khan Janjua, the national security adviser to Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, the prime minister.

    Janjua said that Pakistan would like the US president to pay for the barrier – or at least the Afghan side – arguing that the $532m (£378m) price tag will be a lot cheaper than the $45bn annual estimated cost of the Afghan war.

    At a briefing in Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan – one of the

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