ISLAMABAD, 28 August 2021, (TON): Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Maj Gen Babar Iftikhar emphasised that the situation on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border was normal and under control while Pakistan's side was secure.

At the outset of his press conference in Rawalpindi, he said “he would talk about the evolving situation in Afghanistan and the implied national security problems that Pakistan could face, along with the measures the armed forces had taken and would continue to take to ward off any spillover of insecurity and instability into Pakistan.”

He said “prior to the Taliban's takeover of Kabul, the military situation in the war-torn country unfolded rapidly.”

He added that Pakistan had already started taking the measures it needed to guard the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and to ensure security.

Pakistan had apprehensions that the situation would unfold in the way that it did and there could be a "spillover", which is why it took the steps it did, he elaborated.

He recalled that Pakistan had started "beefing up" its security since 2014, including Operation Zarb-i-Azb and Operation Radd-ul-Fasaad.