New Delhi, Dec. 16 -- Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Tuesday said that India has physically fenced more than 93% of its international border with Pakistan.
In a written reply to a query by two Trinamool Congress MPs, Jagdish Chandra Barma Basunia and Sharmila Sarkar, regarding the unfenced portions of India's international borders, Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai, informed the Lok Sabha that fencing has been completed along 2,135.136 kilometres, accounting for 93.25 per cent of the total 2,289.66-kilometre India-Pakistan border.
The remaining 154.524 kilometres, or 6.75 per cent, is yet to be fenced, the reply added.
It stated that border fencing remains a key component of India's strategy to curb infiltration and enhan...