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US vacates Pakistan base amid drone debate
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Departure comes after ultimatum from Islamabad prompted by the death of 24 of its soldiers in NATO air raid.
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The US has vacated the Shamsi air base in Pakistan's Balochistan province after a 15-day ultimatum given by Islamabad, prompted by the deaths of at least 24 of its soldiers in a NATO air raid last month.
Sunday's withdrawal was completed when the final flight carrying US personnel and equiptment flew out.
Nine planes carrying personnel and 20 carrying equiptment - including drone aircraft and weapons - left for neighbouring Afghanistan, officials said.
Shamsi wahttp://warisacrime.org/node/add/storys believed to be the staging post for US drones operating in northwest Pakistan and neighbouring Afghanistan.
'Shoot down'
Meanwhile, a senior Pakistani military official told a US television network on Sunday that his country "will shoot down any US drone that enters its territory".
Twenty trucks torched in attack at Nato terminal in Quetta
AFP:
Smoke and flame rise from Nato supply oil tankers and goods trucks at a terminal following an attack by gunmen in Quetta on Thursday. – Photo by AFP
QUETTA: Up to 20 trucks were destroyed in a rocket attack Thursday on a Nato trucking terminal in Quetta supplying troops in neighbouring Afghanistan, police said.
A number of oil tankers and goods trucks were parked in the temporary terminal after Pakistan shut down supply lines for Nato forces in anger at a deadly cross-border air strike which killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.
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