The state border of Pakistan - the line and the vertical surface passing along this line, defining the limits of the state territory (land, water, bowels and airspace) of Pakistan , the spatial limit of the state sovereignty of Pakistan. The length of the Pakistan border is 6.774 km.
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Land Borders
The main territory of Pakistan is bordered by land with 4 UN member states .
| States | Border length (km) |
|---|---|
| India | 2.912 |
| Afghanistan | 2.430 |
| Iran | 909 |
| China | 523 |
Sea borders
The coastline of Pakistan is 1,046 km. Pakistan has only a maritime border with Oman , although until 1958 the city of Gwadar was under the jurisdiction of an Arab state.
Overland
Afghanistan
The Durand Line is a virtually unmarked 2430-kilometer border between Afghanistan and Pakistan . It arose as a result of three Anglo-Afghan wars in which Great Britain tried to expand British India . This line is the result of negotiations in 1893 between the Afghan emir Abdur-Rahman and the secretary of the Indian colonial administration, Sir Mortimer Durand . The Afghan government refuses to recognize it as a border.
India
Wagah is the only settlement through which you can cross the border between two states [1] .
Iran
In 2007, Iran began the construction of a concrete wall on the common border between the two countries. Pakistani officials did not protest against this decision, as Iran was building a barrier on its territory. The height of the barrier is 10 feet, reinforced with steel bars, was built along the common border of the two states, passing through the territory of the historical region of Balochistan . Iranian officials explained their decision to fence themselves off from Pakistan by the fact that a large amount of drug trafficking passes through this section of the border, as well as extremist-minded groups of Balochs who infiltrate Iran to commit terrorist acts and provocations [2] .
People's Republic of China
Pakistan and China are connected by the Karakorum highway passing through the disputed territory of Gilgit-Baltistan . On this highway is the dry port of Sust . This city has a strategic position, through it all passenger and freight traffic crosses the Pakistan-China border. Susta has a simplified customs scheme, so Chinese goods are cleared here and then transported to cities in Pakistan .
Notes
- ↑ Thorold, Crispin . Batting for unity in Pakistan , BBC News .
- ↑ The Hindu: International: Iran fences border with Pakistan
Links
- Media related to Pakistan 's Wikimedia Commons