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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ibnanv" data-source="post: 11599612" data-attributes="member: 218596">Move comes after a 15-day ultimatum given by Islamabad, prompted by the deaths of 24 of its soldiers in NATO air raid.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   <img src="http://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/Images/2011/12/3/2011123233220503734_20.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />   There was outrage in Pakistan after the deaths of 24 Pakistani soldiers in a NATO raid [AFP]    The US has vacated the Shamsi airbase in Pakistan's Balochistan  province after a 15-day ultimatum given by Islamabad, prompted by the  deaths of at least 24 of its soldiers in a NATO air raid last month. Sunday's withdrawal was completed when the final flight carrying  left-over US personnel and equiptment flew out of air base. Shortly  after the take off of the last US flight, the American flag was lowered  in the vacated air base. The nine planes carrying personnel and the 20 planes carrying  equiptment - including drone aircraft and weapons - were shifted to  neighbouring Afghanistan, according to officials. The Shamsi base is believed to be the staging post for the US drones  operating in northwest Pakistan and neighbouring Afghanistan. Meanwhile, a senior Pakistani military official told a US television  network on Sunday that his country "will shoot down any US drone that  enters its territory". Al Jazeera’s Kamal Hyder, reporting from Islamabad, said that  Pakistani parliamentarians had "asked their air chief whether they had  the capability to shoot down the drones if they were to violate their  frontiers". "The air chief told them point blank that the decision to shoot down  the drones was a political one and if they were ordered to do so they  would comply," he said. Our bureau in Islamabad reports that the Pakistani military has  confirmed that "border posts have been beefed up with air defense  weapons systems to thwart any intrusion or offensive action from across"  the border. Pakistan has also shut a vital NATO supply route into Afghanistan,  calling the incident on November 26 in which dozens of its troops died  in an air strike by the miliary alliance on a border post "a deliberate  act of aggression".     -Al Jazeera's Kamal Hyder reports on the latest development in the US-Pakistani relations     The decision regarding the Shamsi base was taken last month after  Yousuf Raza Gilani, Pakistan's prime minister, called an emergency  meeting of his military chiefs. At the time, the foreign ministry also summoned Cameron Munter, the  US ambassador in Islamabad, to "lodge a strong protest" against the  attack. A Pakistani parliamentary committee has ordered a complete review of  all strategic agreements with Washington, and top officials said that  the goal was to draft a new set of "terms of engagement" with the US. Islamabad has remained adamant over the closure of the air base  despite the Obama administration’s pledge to conduct a full  investigation into the attack. In a telephone conversation with US Secretary of State Hillary  Clinton on November 27, Hina Rabbani Khar, Pakistan's foreign minister,  said such attacks were "totally unacceptable". "They demonstrate complete disregard for international law and human  life, and are in stark violation of Pakistani sovereignty," she said.</blockquote>

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