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Wednesday, December 05, 2012

Pakistan, US cement defence cooperation

P-3C Orion |In a significant development, the United States has expressed willingness to provide Pakistan with another three to four maritime surveillance aircraft, P3C Orion, for the aviation fleet of Pakistani Navy, it has been reliably learnt.

Pakistan has been seeking for more Orion aircraft from US since the destruction of two such aircraft in the terrorist attack on Mehran naval base in Karachi last year.

The US authorities expressed their willingness to oblige Pakistan on this count during the 21st meeting of the US-Pakistan Defence Consultative Group (DCG), which was held in Rawalpindi on December 3-4.

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1 comment:

  1. Suvo6/12/12 06:09

    US have skillfully armed both India and Pakistan and neither of the two ever protest. While Pakistan has no choice other than Chinese made arms, and welcome the US made weapons; India, on the other hand, have no foreign policy that send out a message that such two faced behaviour would mean loss of co-operation and loss of business.

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