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Britain building FC training camp in Balochistan

LONDON: Britain is building a training camp for the Frontier Corps (FC) paramilitary force to help in the fight against the Taliban in the lawless border area with southern Afghanistan, according to a report in a UK daily on Friday.

The Times said Britain also planned to base 24 army trainers at the camp in Balochistan for a three-year stint from August next year, when construction is due to finish.

The British personnel would work alongside six US trainers at the camp, which is designed to house 550 people, the newspaper reported, quoting a senior official at the British High Commission in Islamabad.

The camp will train 360 FC soldiers at a time, on 12-week courses, the official said.

The report said the plan was politically sensitive because the British and US trainers would be the first foreign forces formally stationed in Balochistan since independence in 1947. afp

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