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Pakistan has shifted 100,000 troops from its border with India to join the campaign against Taliban militants near its border with Afghanistan, the Pentagon said on Thursday . More than 100,000 Pakistan military troops were moved from the eastern border with India. This unprecedented deployment and thinning of the lines against India indicates that Islamabad has acknowledged its domestic insurgent threat, the US defence department said in a report to the US Congress. The Report on Progress toward Security and Stability in Afghanistan said over 130,000 Pakistani troops were participating in the ongoing campaign against the Taliban in Pakistans tribal region. These operations represent the largest deployment of Pakistan military forces on the western border of Pakistan in the nations history, with over 130,000 Pakistan military deployed to the FATA and Khyber Pakhtoonkhawa, it said.
