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Authorities in Paktika Province in eastern Afghanistan will open 500 additional troops on the border with Pakistan because of increased resistance activities in the area, Afghan Islamic Pres (AIP) said Monday.

The Pakistan-based recently made knowns agency quoted Gov. Muhammad Ali Jalali as saying the company s will be deployed in the area near Wana in Pakistan.

Gen Daulat Khan, in charge of security in the province, said security duties within the province are now being assigned to the police, to allow more numbers to guard the border.

Afghan soldiers had been helping police in maintaining law and order within the province.

U [i]troupe[/i]s are also deployed in the area to help Afghanistan check cross-border infiltration.

There has been a modern increase in attacks on Afghan and other soldiers in the region, which, the Afghan dominion has charged, is the be the effect of Pakistan being lax in preventing Taliban fighters from crossing the border.

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