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  • Counter IED symposium: 20 May 2013 at Rawalpindi.

  • Steps taken to defeat IEDs:

  • Pakistan’s Counter-IED Organization established to formulate policies and ensure implementation.
  • Tight control over explosive, detonators and others IEDs-related material by the Ministry of Industry.
  • Banning the export of Calcium Ammonium Nitrate (CAN) and other chemical based fertilizers with issuance of NOCs to authorized dealers only.
  • Disallowing the transportation of CAN and other such fertilizers to be moved in FATA and Balochistan.
  • Fertilizer control regime introduced and implemented by the FATA Secretariat.
  • Increased number of troops on border outposts to minimize possibility of cross-border smuggling of CAN.

Press Release
Rawalpindi - August 27, 2011: 

At least 25 Security forces personnel including 16 Frontier Scouts KPK, 4 Policemen and 5 Levies embraced shahadat when 200-300 terrorists from across the border (Kunar and Nooristan Province) attacked 7 FC check posts in Chitral early this morning.  Own security personnel defended the posts by engaging the attackers and reportedly 20 terrorists were killed. However, two border posts were overrun by the terrorists. Reinforcements have been sent to beef up the border posts.
Reportedly terrorists from Swat, Dir, and Bajur organised by Fazlullah and Maulvi Faqir Muhammad with local Afghans have attacked the security forces posts in Chitral. Since their expulsion from their native areas, the terrorists have organised themselves in Kunar and Nooristan Provinces with the support of local Afghan authorities. Due to scanty presence of NATO and ANA forces along Pak-Afghan border, the terrorists are  using these areas as safe havens and have mounted repeated attacks against own security forces posts and isolated villages. 
It is pertinent to mention that since last one year accurate intelligence about large concentration of terrorists from Pakistan and their local Afghan supporters in Kunar and Nooristan provinces has been shared with NATO and Afghan authorities but no worth while action has been taken against the terrorists and attack against Pakistani border posts have continued with impunity.

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