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Saturday, May 28, 2011

France halts arms sales to Pakistan

Agosta-90BSignalling a temporary freeze on arms sales to India's arch rival in a post-Osama bin Laden development, France on Friday said it is discouraging requests for heavy military equipment from Pakistan.

French defence minister Gerard Longuet, who wrapped up a two-day visit to New Delhi on Friday, claimed his country was only supplying interception equipment to Pakistan for use against terrorists.

This equipment is meant to intercept light communication equipment being used by the terrorists.

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