Chinese media reporting that Pakistani Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani, just ordered U.S. forces to vacate Shamsi Air Base in Pakistan’s southwest Balochistan province. He gave them 15 days.
This comes less than 24 hours after U.S. led NATO and ISAF helicopters attacked and killed at least 24 Pakistani soldiers. The irony is that U.S. military leaders had just finished a meeting with their Pakistani counter parts, to assure them that such a thing won’t happen (last year a similar incident killed at least two Pakistani soldiers).
Pakistan’s immediate response to the attack was to stop supplies for U.S. led NATO/ISAF troops from crossing into Afghanistan.
Also, this U.S./NATO attack comes days after China and Pakistan finished joint war games, involving 540 soldiers, mainly airborne units. The war games were held in Punjab province of Pakistan.