Pakistan to discuss Chinese defence purchases

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Pakistan will discuss the purchase of advanced defence supplies from China when President Pervez Musharraf and Shaukat Aziz, prime minister, visit Beijing later this year, senior Pakistani officials said.

The revelation closely followed last week’s announcement that Pakistan would buy an unspecified number of sophisticated J-10 fighter jets, also known as F-10s, from China and provided further evidence of the two countries consolidating an already close relationship.

Analysts believe that Pakistan, an important US ally in the fight against terrorism, is concerned about what it considers to be a fast-growing nuclear alliance between neighbouring India and the US and is looking to China as the main source of its crucial defence supplies.

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