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Pakistan orders US to vacate airbase within 15 days
ISLAMABAD : The Federal Cabinet's Defence Committee on Saturday ordered the United States to vacate a controversial
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Cabinet's Defence Committee on Saturday ordered the United States to vacate a controversial airbase within 15 days and closed NATO supply lines into Afghanistan in response to a deadly cross-border NATO air strike.
The order refers to Shamsi, the remote desert outpost in southwest Pakistan reportedly used as a hub for covert CIA drone strikes, which Pakistan previously told the United States to leave in June.
Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2011
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