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Pakistan takes control of Shamsi airbase as US leaves
Sunday December 11, 2011 04:58:49 PM,
IANS
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Islamabad:
Pakistan's defence ministry Sunday took control of the Shamsi
airbase as the US vacated the facility after the government
ordered this following the NATO strikes that killed 24 Pakistani
troops last month, Geo News reported.
According to security sources, the officials of Pakistan's Civil
Aviation Authority, Ministry of Defence and Ministry of Interior
were present at the Shamsi airbase, located in Pakistan's
Balochistan province.
The decision on whether to hand over the airbase to UAE will be
taken later on, the sources added.
"A cargo plane of the US Air Force arrived at the airbase today to
take the US troops to their next destination," Dawn News quoted a
senior Pakistan government official as saying Saturday night.
According to sources, about 20 US cargo planes landed at the
airbase over the past week to shift sensitive equipment, vehicles
and belongings of the US troops who had been using the base for
the last 10 years.
Following the 9/11 terror strike in 2001 in the US, then president
Pervez Musharraf had allowed the US to use two airbases in the
province -- Dalbandin and Shamsi.
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