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US set fire to equipment before leaving Pakistan airbase
Monday December 12, 2011 03:25:45 PM,
IANS
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Islamabad: US
personnel set fire to all their redundant equipment before
vacating Pakistan's Shamsi airbase that had been used to launch
drone attacks, an official said.
The US completed evacuation of the airbase Sunday and Frontier
Corps personnel promptly took over.
A security official told the daily Dawn that US forces had left
virtually nothing there and they set all their redundant and
useless equipment on fire before leaving.
Pakistan had set a Dec 11 deadline for the US to vacate the
airbase after NATO helicopter gunships targeted two border posts
in Mohmand Agency Nov 26, killing two dozen soldiers and sparking
outrage in the country.
The US has been using the Shamsi airbase for nearly a decade for
military operations in Afghanistan and drone strikes in Pakistan's
mountainous tribal regions.
US troops started vacating the base last week and had removed the
control system used for drone attacks in the first phase.
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