military of Pakistan denied a report that us special forces have been integrated with Pakistani troops for intelligence missions in the Northwest of the country.
The local Dawn newspaper, said Saturday that he obtained secret dispatches by WikiLeaks which revealed that us special forces have been deployed with Pakistani troops in operations joint in Pakistan in September 2009.
A spokesman for the Department of media relations Pakistan Army categorically denied the presence of American troops in the North and South Waziristan.
Waziristan, part of the undisciplined Pakistan federally administered Tribal areas (FATA), is considered a hub for the militants, including al-Qaeda and the Taliban Afghan factions that cross the border to attack US troops in Afghanistan.
"No American troops are involved in military operations in FATA,", said the spokesman.
The cables of WikiLeaks could hurt the image of Pakistan's powerful army.
He faced rare criticism after a raid of US special secret forces who killed the al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden not far from the capital, Islamabad this month.
The army ordered the assault, which has seriously the links between the two countries, as a violation of the sovereignty of Pakistan. But the Pakistani invectives generals of the country because they did not know about the raid.
Anti-Americanism runs high in Pakistan, in part because of unmanned U.S. aircraft strike on militants, who are considered as a violation of the sovereignty of the U.S. ally and killed civilians.
Disclosure of alleged U.S. troop deployments came a day after another set of cables showed that powerful armed Pakistani leader not only tacitly accepted secret U.S. drone campaign against militants, but asked "continues coverage of predator" tribal areas by these aircraft. The army has denied the content.
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