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Recently at the renamed Islamabad airport, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto International Airport, the Interior Minister of Pakistan, Rehman Malik had inaugurated the IBM (Inter Border Management) system. It is expected to give information about those who travel from and to Pakistan. It is in a way to keep a whole record and check on who is going inside and outside of the country for security reasons. Its main focus is on human trafficking and terrorists’ movements.
If the IBM system succeeds properly, then it will prove a great help in the cause of Pakistan’s fight against international terrorism. The latest technology has been long in need to have surveillance over the movements of criminals, whether they are related to terrorism directly or indirectly or are criminals nevertheless. This the first of many to come IBM systems installed at Pakistani airport. The rest of the airports are also expected to get this technology within the period of the next three months.
The illegal movement that has been going on from Afghanistan border will not be taken any lightly, no matter whatever the cost be, according to the minister. He wants Afghanistan also to cooperate in stopping such illegal movements across the mountainous and porous borders of Afghanistan-Pakistan. Hence, to protect the borders of Pakistan, the IBM system will also be installed at the borders of Pakistan’s neighbouring country of Iran and India as well. There have been measures like these in the past too. The only thing that matters is actually stopping criminal and terrorist activities.
