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Monday, December 23, 2024  
21 Jumada Al-Akhirah 1446  

ISPR denies US military’s presence in Pakistan

RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Army on Thursday rejected the claim of  international news agencies regarding the presence of US military Trainers in Pakistan, Aaj news reported.

According to the sources, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) the claims made in the report released by foreign media is “incorrect”.

In a news report today United States med that, they have sent a handful of military trainers back into Pakistan in a sign the two nations may be able to achieve some low-level cooperation against militants despite a string of confrontations that have left Washington’s relations with Islamabad in crisis.

The report also said that, Fewer than 10 US special operations soldiers have been sent to a training site near the border city of Peshawar, where they will instruct trainers from Pakistan’s Frontier Corps in counter-insurgency warfare.

In the past, there had been some 200 to 300 US military personnel stationed in Pakistan, many of them training Pakistan special forces to confront militants.

But Pakistan sharply reduced the size of the mission after the bin Laden raid.