Pakistan to withdraw troops from Afghan border
Pakistan has announced it is to withdraw its soldiers from the Afghan border so they can be re-deployed along the eastern frontier with India.
Officials in Islamabad said the country needs to move the troops because of India’s military build-up in Kashmir, a Muslim province that both Pakistan and India claim as their territory.
The re-deployment will leave the Afghan-Pakistani border open to al-Qaida and Taliban fighters fleeing the US bombing of Afghanistan.
Two divisions of the Pakistani army are currently stationed in the North West Border Frontier and Baluchistan provinces to prevent people fleeing across the border and to provide support for the US war on Afghanistan.
