Does Border Fencing Reduce Terrorism?
Author: Syed Hassan Zulfiqar
Publisher: Syed Hassan Zulfiqar
Published: 2020-05-25
Total Pages: 28
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This study examines the effect of border fencing of the world’s most dangerous border on Durand line and conducts a pre and post analysis of reduction in terrorism in Pakistan and Afghanistan post the global war on terrorism. The research is based on analysing the decrease in terrorist attacks due to border management of cross-border terrorist infiltration post border fencing. The research aims to understand does fencing borders reduce terrorism and is fencing an effective measure to combat terrorism by analysing the case study of the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. To assess the impact of border fencing on the Pak-Afghan border on decrease in terrorist incidents in Pakistan, this study adopted the Simple Linear Regression Model and Poisson Regression Model. The null hypothesis stated that border fencing did not reduce terrorism whereas the alternative hypothesis claimed that border fencing did reduce terrorism in the post border fencing time period from 2015-2018. The study reveals significant relationship between border fencing and reduction in terrorism incidents. The regression results suggest that reduction in the terrorism is statistically significant and border fencing did cause a substantial reduction in terrorist attacks and concludes that border fencing is an effective mean of combating terrorism as in the case of Pak-Afghan border.