The border is a major route for drugs being smuggled from Afghanistan to Russia and Europe, and as of mid-2009 it appears that drug and insurgent-related violence around the border is increasing, due in part to the increasingly unstable situation in Pakistan.
邊界是毒品從阿富汗走私到俄羅斯和歐洲的主要途徑，截至2009年中期，似乎與邊境有關的毒品和與叛亂分子有關的暴力正在增加，部分原因是巴基斯坦局勢日益不穩定。