India and Pakistan OK Pullback
India and Pakistan signed an agreement today to remove more of the troops sent to their tense border last January, officials announced.
A Pakistani government spokesman said the agreement calls for a return to “peacetime positions” within 15 days of a total of 40,000 to 50,000 Indian and Pakistani troops stationed along the frontier in the southern sector of India’s Rajasthan state and Pakistan’s Sind province. The two nations, which have fought three wars since 1949, earlier pulled more than 75,000 troops away from a 75-mile stretch of frontier in Pakistan’s Punjab province and the low reaches of India’s Jammu and Kashmir states.
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