US leaves Pakistan airbase within time limit

by admin
Dec 11, 2011

US forces have vacated the Shamsi airbase in south-west Pakistan within the time limit given by the Pakistani government.

Pakistani Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani told BBC Urdu, the air base is now under the control of the country's forces.

The withdrawal was demanded by the government after last months NATO air strike, which killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.

The airbase, which had been in use by the US since 2001, was utilised for surveillance of the tribal regions and staging drone attacks within Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Read report by Pakistan's The News here.

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