Islamabad: Pakistan s military today denied reports that it had withdrawn tens of thousands of troops from the border along India to deploy them against militants in its restive tribal areas.
Top military spokesman Major General Waheed Arshad told AFP that Pakistan did not station troops along the border with India during peacetime. He further said Pakistan did have troops deployed on the Line of Control as well as on the Siachen glacier in the Himalayas.
"Not a single soldier had been pulled back from these two deployments," he said.
Pakistan last week moved 2,500 troops into Swat in the North West Frontier Province to counter a firebrand religious leader who is demanding Islamic Sharia law in the one-time tourist resort. The militants have seized more than two-thirds of the key tourist valley.
