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| No troop reduction along Indian borders: Pakistan | | | Islamabad | Nov 7
Pakistan Wednesday denied reports that security reasons in tribal areas and worsening internal situation had forced it to reduce troops along the borders with India.
No troops have been called back from the Line of Control and no reduction has been made along the international border with India, said Maj. Gen. Waheed Arshad, director general inter service public relations.
A New Delhi based newspaper had Wednesday reported that for the first time in 60 years, Pakistan has considerably reduced the number of troops along the heavily guarded border with India.
However, Arshad said the report is 'baseless and unfounded', according to Online news agency.
The report had said that the matter had come up in the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Turmoil in Pakistan and unrest in its western areas have resulted in Pakistani troops being pulled away in large numbers from the border areas adjoining Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan and Gujarat, according to the report.
'They (troops) have been dispatched to Peshawar or Quetta for deployment along the troubled Afghan frontier. Units from the Force Command Northern Area (FCNA) that controls Pakistan's Azad Kashmir region and forces from the dual-role XI Corps in Peshawar - tasked with defending the Afghan border have also been moved to fight the Taliban,' said the report. |
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