PESHAWAR: The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) on Thursday rejected reports stating that United States military trainers were returning to Pakistan, DawnNews reported.

The ISPR said news reports saying US military trainers returning to a training site near Peshawar was baseless. ISPR sources moreover said that neither have US military trainers returned to Pakistan nor are they about to.

Several news reports published on Thursday quoted an unnamed American official as saying that fewer than 10 US special operations soldiers had been sent to a training site near Peshawar, where they would instruct trainers from Pakistan’s Frontier Corps in counter-insurgency warfare.

The number of American military instructors in Pakistan dropped to zero after US aircraft killed 24 Pakistani soldiers in November 2011.

In the past, there had been some 200 to 300 US military personnel stationed in Pakistan, many of them training Pakistan special forces to confront militants.