British Prime Minister David Cameron visited on Thursday his country’s troops in Afghanistan, as he defended a decision to pull soldiers from the war-torn country.

British Prime Minister David Cameron visited on Thursday his country’s troops in Afghanistan, as he defended a decision to pull soldiers from the war-torn country.

Cameron toured Camp Bastion in the southern province of Helmand, saying he was confident that the draw-down of nearly half of the British troops deployed, announced in parliament on Wednesday, would not pave the way for an increase in terrorist activity.

He told reporters that Afghan security forces were "doing better than expected".
The fact is they (Afghan security forces) are doing better than expected," Cameron said, adding that "this is withdrawal. This is draw-down based on success, not on failure."

He added that the decision was taken "for good military reasons and it has been done in a proper way.
"We're confident it can be done while making sure Afghanistan does not return to become a haven of terrorism which is of course why we came here in the first place," stressed the prime minister.

Britain has the second largest force in Afghanistan after the United States and has lost 438 troops in Afghanistan since the 2001 US-led invasion.