Pakistan said Monday it was engaging with Afghanistan’s Taliban autocrats through politic channels to resolve “ some confusions” stemming from the installation of a security hedge on the pervious border separating the two countries.

Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi told a news conference in Islamabad that his country was determined to cover its “ interests” and continue unilateral fencing Pakistan’s nearly-kilometer border with Afghanistan.

The Pakistani principal diplomat was responding to recent attempts by Taliban border forces aimed at precluding Pakistan from erecting the hedge. The rearmost similar incident supposedly happed over the weekend when the Afghan side disassembled a portion of the hedge.

“ We aren’t silent. We’ve installed the hedge and, God willing, this trouble will continue,” Qureshi stressed. “ Afghanistan is our friendly neighbor. We’re engaged with them, as some confusions have surfaced, and we shall be suitable to resolve them through politic channels.”

A Taliban Defense Ministry spokesperson on Sunday blamed the fencing design, saying Pakistan had “ no right to erect acerbic line along the Durand Line and separate the lines on both sides of the line.”

Consecutive governments in Afghanistan have disputed the 1893 British colonizer- period discrimination. The boundary was the outgrowth of an agreement between Sir Mortimer Durand, a clerk of the British Indian government, and also-Afghan sovereign Abdur Rahman Khan.

Pakistan dismisses Afghan expostulations, saying it inherited the transnational border after gaining independence from Britain in 1947. But the differences over the status of the border continue to strain bilateral ties.

The massive service- led construction trouble started in 2017 to block illegal militant movement and smuggling. Pakistani officers say further than 90 of the work has been completed.

The fencing design sometimes started fatal clashes between Pakistani colors and Afghan security forces of the former Western- backed government in Kabul that the Taliban ousted last August.