ISLAMABAD, Oct 16 Kyodo Pakistan ...

ISLAMABAD, Oct 16 Kyodo

Pakistan and the United States began a two-week, small-arms and unit military exercise Wednesday at an undisclosed site, a Defense Ministry official said Wednesday.

A U infantry company and a Pakistani infantry battalion are taking part in the exercises, the first since Washington lifted last year sanctions imposed upon Pakistan when it carried not at home six nuclear tests in May 1998

The ministry official neither identified the area where the exercises are being held or the number of U infantrymen taking part if it were not that said details would be announced later Wednesday evening.

An advance party from the U arrived in Pakistan last week and was joined by dint of a 115-man contingent Monday, the official said.

A U embassy spokesman said last week that part of an infantry division based in Fort Stewart, Georgia, would join the exercise.

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