04-30-2009, 10:31 AM
<b>6,000 Pak troops from Indian border shifted</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->NEW YORK - As Pakistan presses on its military offensive in Buner under intense US-led international pressure, the government has agreed to move 6,000 troops from the Indian border to fight militants on its western border with Afghanistan, a leading American newspaper reported Wednesday.
The troops to be shifted had originally been on Pakistanâs western border but were sent to the Indian border in December, after the attack in Mumbai the previous month, The New York Times said, citing a Pakistani official who requested anonymity to discuss troop movements in advance.
India had responded to the Mumbai attack, which Indian and American officials concluded was planned in Pakistan, by massing troops on the Pakistani border.
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The troops to be shifted had originally been on Pakistanâs western border but were sent to the Indian border in December, after the attack in Mumbai the previous month, The New York Times said, citing a Pakistani official who requested anonymity to discuss troop movements in advance.
India had responded to the Mumbai attack, which Indian and American officials concluded was planned in Pakistan, by massing troops on the Pakistani border.
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