In order to bring maximum relief and reconstruction effort for quake victims, Pakistan will postpone buying F-16 from the US.
Muzaffarabad: Pakistan will postpone the purchase of F-16 fighter jets from the US in order to provide more relief to victims of the October 8 earthquake, President Pervez Musharraf said on Friday.
"We want to bring maximum relief and reconstruction effort," he said, while stressing that maintaining national security was also important.
The US said last year it was willing to sell Pakistan F-16 fighters and Islamabad was expected to buy about 80 of them.
An F-16 can cost up to about Rs 180 crore, depending upon the model and the configuration.
Pakistan is seeking billions of dollars in relief and reconstruction aid in the wake of the earthquake that killed more than 73,000 people in its northern mountains.
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