The governor of the Afghan province of Nangarhar said that several Pakistani border checkpoints were torn down just south of the Khyber Pass.
Before September 11, most vehicles were waved through U.S. border checkpoints.
Uzbekistan has also unilaterally closed most border checkpoints with both upstream countries, set mines along parts of the boundary with Tajikistan, and often holds up commercial traffic.
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Not all U.S.-Canada border checkpoints reported long delays.
In a separate press conference on Monday, homeland security secretary Janet Napolitano said queues at airport security checkpoints and at border crossings would lengthen considerably if the cuts were put into place.
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Behind the army came large earthmovers, to build checkpoints for the Afghan Border Police.
He reinstated the normal calendar, removed internal checkpoints and opened the border enough to let official foreign delegations flock in.
There has been no official Pakistani comment on the latest clashes, but a Pakistani foreign ministry spokesman insisted that the Durand Line was the settled frontier, and that Pakistani checkpoints were vital for good border management.
As we approached the first of two military checkpoints on the Mexican side of the border I saw a massive Modelo Especial billboard.
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Malian security forces have erected a series of checkpoints around the town that amount to internal border crossings.
The men were seized following attacks on three checkpoints south of Peshawar, close to the border with Afghanistan.
Thompson, who has worked with border refugees for more than two decades, says forced displacement of villagers has dropped dramatically and there are fewer military checkpoints, allowing people to move around more freely.
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