Pakistan plans buying F-16s: Report | Times of India

Ediacara

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sat Aug-30-03 06:45 PM
Original message

Pakistan plans buying F-16s: Report | Times of India

Pakistan plans buying F-16s: Report

ANI< SUNDAY, AUGUST 31, 2003 06:00:39 AM >

RAWALPINDI: Pakistan is contemplating to buy one squadron of Mirage aircraft from a West Asian country and two squadrons of F-16 fighter jets from Belgium, the Dawn reported on Saturday.

A meeting was held here in this regard on Friday. President Pervez Musharraf presided over the meeting, attended by all services chiefs, apart form defence secretary Lt Gen (retd) Hamid Nawaz Khan.

According to the report, Pakistan is vying with India for the purchase of one squadron of the latest Mirage aircraft, which the unnamed West Asian country had acquired from France, but now wanted to sell them.

More at the Times of India

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com
Software has been extensively modified by the DU administrators

Important Notices: By participating on this discussion board, visitors agree to abide by the rules outlined on our Rules page. Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC.