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US not the “only” source of acquisition of weapons: PM Abbasi

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has said that Pakistan has expanded the weapon acquisition network and has inducted Chinese and European systems in its arsenal. 

“We have major US weapons systems in our military, but we’ve also diversified. We have Chinese and European systems. Recently, for the first time we inducted Russian attack helicopters,” he said in an interview.

The premier also claimed that Pakistan was no longer dependent on the US and Trump administration to meet its military and other requirements.

“If one source dries up, we have no option but to go to another source. It may cost more, it may consume more resources, but we have to fight that war, and that’s what we emphasised to all the people that we met,” Abbasi said.

The prime minister emphasised that the world should recognise Pakistan’s efforts in fighting the “world’s war” on terror.

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M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.