Asia-Pacific

Pentagon says US reducing troop total in Pakistan

(Agencies)
Updated: 2011-05-26 16:00

WASHINGTON - The United States is reducing the number of its military personnel in Pakistan at that country's request after the killing of Osama bin Laden.

That comes from the Pentagon.

A Pentagon spokesman, Marine Col. David Lapan, said Wednesday that there are more than 200 US military personnel in Pakistan, but he provided no details on how many had been withdrawn since Pakistan made its request.

Lapan later said the personnel who have been pulled out were troops who had been training Pakistani forces in counterinsurgency skills. He did not say whether Pakistan had set a specific new limit on the US numbers.