Pakistan to buy "scaled down" package of F-16s

Published: Apr 28, 2006
Source: www.financialexpress.com



WASHINGTON, APRIL 28: Pakistan has agreed to buy a "scaled down" package of F-16 fighter jets from the US due to strained resources following the devastating earthquake in the country last year.

It is a "much scaled down request. In view of the constraints that we have on resources, we have now a far less ambitious package which is a mix of some old, used aircraft and some new," visiting Pakistan Foreign Secretary Riaz Khan told a joint news conference with US undersecretary of state Nicholas Burns.

He said he did not have all the details of the package.

"As regards the specific details of this package, I'll give you the basic fact, which is that it is a scaled down request. But exactly what are the numbers involved -- what were before because these things keeping on getting revised. So what numbers we may have started with, I even don't know that and I have rough idea as to what we have requested now.continue..