Pakistan and Afghanistan plan to use Google Maps to help settle a border dispute that led to deadly clashes last week, officials from both sides said Monday. Pakistan inherited its 2,400-km border with its western neighbour when it gained independence from Britain in 1947, but Afghanistan has never formally recognised it. In Pakistan, however, the site shows the internationally recognised de facto border, the Line of Control, marked with a dotted line to denote it is disputed. In 2010 Google was embroiled in a Central American border dispute that saw two neighbouring countries dispatch troops and heavily armed police to their joint border. Villages straddling the frontier have mosques and houses with one door in Pakistan and another in Afghanistan.

Source: Dhaka Tribune May 08, 2017 13:07 UTC