U.S. Congress has frozen $700million in aid to Pakistan until it gives assurances it is combating the spread of homemade explosives in the region.
Calls are growing in the U.S. to penalise Pakistan for failing to act against militant groups and, some argue, helping them.
Relations between the two countries are already at rock bottom after a number of U.S. drone attacks have killed Pakistani civilians and the secret raid in which al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed in May.
C.I.A. Leaves Base in Pakistan Used for Drone Strikes
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The Central Intelligence Agency has vacated an air base in western Pakistan that it had been using for drone strikes against militants in the country’s tribal areas, the Pakistani military said on Sunday.
Pakistan had ordered the C.I.A. to leave the Shamsi air base in protest over NATO airstrikes that killed at least 25 Pakistani soldiers near the border with Afghanistan on Nov. 26. Pakistan has also blocked all NATO logistical supplies from crossing the border into Afghanistan since the clash.
Pentagon and Obama administration officials declined to comment publicly on the departure from the Shamsi air base.
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