US To Reduce Troops In Pakistan
Washington: May 26, 2011
The US government has announced its decision to reduce the number of American troops in Pakistan in view of the rising anti-US sentiments amongst the Pakistani people and a restrained US-Pakistan relation.
The US military spokesman, Colonel Dave Lapan said on Wednesday “We were recently (within past 2 weeks) notified in writing that the government of Pakistan wished for the US to reduce its footprint in Pakistan. Accordingly, we have begun those reductions,"
The growing anti-US sentiments in Pakistan was triggered by the US spy Raymond Davis arrest for killing three of its citizens on a busy street of Lahore. The anti-American feeling was furthered fuelled by the US forces when they carried out a unilateral air raid on OBL hiding in Abbottabad on May 2 violating Pakistani air space.
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