Afghan President Hamid Karzai has given US Special Forces two weeks to leave a key battleground province after some US soldiers there were found to have tortured or even killed innocent people, the President's spokesman said on Sunday.
Pakistan's government has told the United States to halve the number of military trainers it has stationed in the country, the latest sign of spiralling distrust between the two allies since the killing of Osama bin Laden.
Pakistan's military has denied a report that US special forces were embedded with Pakistani troops for intelligence- gathering missions in the northwest of the country.
Osama bin Laden was unarmed when he was shot dead by US special forces, the White House said, as Pakistan faced further pressure on Wednesday to explain how the world's most-wanted man was able to shelter so long in a town near its capital.