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Pakistan returns helicopters to US

| @indiablooms | Oct 31, 2017, at 09:31 pm

Islamabad, Oct 31 (IBNS): Pakistan have returned five of the helicopters to the US which were given to monitor border areas of the nation with Afghanistan, media reports said.

 

Pakistan on Monday returned five remaining helicopters to the United States which were given earlier for monitoring the country's border with Afghanistan, sources told Geo News.

The US had given nine choppers to Pakistan, media reports said.

The helicopters were given to Pakistan in 2002.

Pakistan,however, returned four of them to Pakistan on Oct 15.

The remaining rotary-wing aircraft were loaded on a transport aircraft in Islamabad on Monday and are expected to reach the US early today, sources told Geo News.

Sources further added that the return of said helicopters will affect all operations, including the monitoring of the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

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