ISLAMABAD .- The United States is reducing its military personnel training in Pakistan following a request the Government of that country, acknowledged Tuesday its embassy in Islamabad, two weeks after the operation that killed Osama Bin Laden.
"We are in the process of reducing the presence of our military personnel training in accordance with a request from the Government of Pakistan," he said in a statement released by the U.S. embassy in Islamabad.
The document, Col. Michael Shavers, a spokesman for the Defense of the embassy, \u200b\u200bsaid in Pakistani territory are about 200 U.S. military, but did not specify how many soldiers have already left the country.
As reported by the local newspaper "Express Tribune", the U.S. military presence in Pakistan has been cut nearly in half in the context of the crisis of relations between both countries after the operation that killed Osama Bin Laden at the hands of U.S. special forces in the city of Abbottabad.
Citing Pakistani military sources, the newspaper reported that 160 soldiers from Washington have left the South Asian country, though no Pakistani military spokesman could be reached to confirm this.
According to sources cited by the newspaper, almost a quarter of U.S. quota leave the country before the end of the month.
This slight reduction of U.S. military presence comes after political and military circles in Islamabad have criticized the operation in hunt for Bin Laden and have qualified for violation of Pakistani sovereignty.
Lissette Garcia
RosasSinEspinas
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