All troops will be pulled back: Qureshi

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ISLAMABAD, Oct 21: Pakistan said on Monday that all of its troops would be pulled back from border with India, but refused to specify numbers.

“Pakistan will withdraw all its troops to peacetime locations,” ISPR Director-General Maj-Gen Rashid Qureshi told AFP.

He was unable to give a timetable for the withdrawals.

To a question, Gen Qureshi said it was India that had massed troops on our borders.

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