Islamabad: Pakistan has ordered over 200 US officials to leave the country within 40 days.
Sources said government of Pakistani has dispatched a letter to the US embassy in Islamabad, asking it to phase out over 200 US officials within 30 to 40 days. These officials are reportedly assigned various duties such as logistic support and audit and accounts monitoring in terms of the Coalition Support Fund.
US Ambassador to Islamabad Cameron Munter is coming back to Pakistan after cutting short his holidays to deal with the emerging situation.
Pakistan and the US have been at odds over appointment of US contractors and their visas had been drastically cut down to bare minimal. Pakistan has already restricted movement of all foreign diplomats in the country following the unilateral Abbottabad raid by US special forces that led to the death of Osama bin laden. Pakistan has toughened its stance further following attacks on its Naval bases in Karachi that saw two Orion surveillance aircraft ruined to ashes in a brazen attack yet known in the country’s history.
The US has already applied heavy-handed methods in dealing with the key ally in the war on terror. The US has stifled CSF funding in such as way that Pakistan awaits its own money to be reimbursed for the logistic and other support the country has been extending to the ‘friend’ US in the war against terror.
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