Pakistan Postpones F-16 Purchases

Pakistan plans to postpone the planned purchase of U.S. F-16 fighter jets in order to focus funding on rebuilding efforts after last month’s massive earthquake, the country’s president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, said today (see GSN, Sept. 8).

“We are going to postpone [the purchase] ... we want to bring maximum relief and construction efforts,” Musharraf said (Agence France-Presse/Yahoo!News, Nov. 4).

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