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Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Saturday assured the government’s full support for the $28 billion Armed Forces Development Plan 2025 (AFDP), official sources told. The cabinet’s defence committee, headed by Gilani, discussed various dimensions of national defence and security, and also reviewed the AFDP 2025 in detail. The AFDP, started in 2004-05, was initially estimated at $15 billion and expected to be completed by 20014-15, but it was later enhanced to 2024-25 with a total outlay of $28 billion, the sources said.
The government is allocating over a $1 billion annually to cater to the country’s defence needs, which include acquisition of latest weapons, aircraft and enhancing the country’s weapons manufacturing capability. Despite the ongoing financial crunch, the government has met the AFDP’s requirements in the current fiscal year. The sources said when the budget 2008-09 was announced, allocations for salaries were not met completely, as there had remained a shortfall of a few billion rupees.
To meet the financing shortfall, an additional allocation of Rs 10 billion was approved for the three forces. With the addition, the total outlay of the defence budget has increased from Rs 295 billion to Rs 305 billion for 2008-09, the sources added. The ministers of defence, foreign affairs and information, and the advisers on finance and interior were present in the meeting along with the chiefs of the country’s armed forces.
Under the development plan, Pakistan would purchase defense and armed weapons to fill its defense need for next 16 years, sources added. Priority has been given to Pakistan air force in armed forces development plan 2025 while production of JF-17 thunder jet is being carried out under this project. Under the plan, air defense of Pakistan army would be strengthened while Cobra, Apache helicopters and state of art weapons would also be purchased from US. In order to strengthen naval defense, 3 submarines U-214 would also be purchased from Germany, sources said.
J-10, JF-17 thunder jets would be purchased from China for Pakistan air forces. Sources told, finance ministry has assured armed forces that it would release funds at appropriate time to ensure implementation on Armed Forces development Plan 2025.
The government is allocating over a $1 billion annually to cater to the country’s defence needs, which include acquisition of latest weapons, aircraft and enhancing the country’s weapons manufacturing capability. Despite the ongoing financial crunch, the government has met the AFDP’s requirements in the current fiscal year. The sources said when the budget 2008-09 was announced, allocations for salaries were not met completely, as there had remained a shortfall of a few billion rupees.
To meet the financing shortfall, an additional allocation of Rs 10 billion was approved for the three forces. With the addition, the total outlay of the defence budget has increased from Rs 295 billion to Rs 305 billion for 2008-09, the sources added. The ministers of defence, foreign affairs and information, and the advisers on finance and interior were present in the meeting along with the chiefs of the country’s armed forces.
Under the development plan, Pakistan would purchase defense and armed weapons to fill its defense need for next 16 years, sources added. Priority has been given to Pakistan air force in armed forces development plan 2025 while production of JF-17 thunder jet is being carried out under this project. Under the plan, air defense of Pakistan army would be strengthened while Cobra, Apache helicopters and state of art weapons would also be purchased from US. In order to strengthen naval defense, 3 submarines U-214 would also be purchased from Germany, sources said.
J-10, JF-17 thunder jets would be purchased from China for Pakistan air forces. Sources told, finance ministry has assured armed forces that it would release funds at appropriate time to ensure implementation on Armed Forces development Plan 2025.
4 comments:
Wow. That's quite an amount of Money, But where will it come from ??
This is less than 2 b $ a year so I don’t think that funding will be a big issue given the recent events in the region and there is strong support to building for the stronger defense, especially for air defence of the country. Remember that Pakistan in 1980s and 1990s had much worse position economically and still supported two independent organizations NDC and KRL to build nuclear weapons and missiles.
Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Tanvir Mehmood Ahmed on March 18, 2009 said that during his tenure, several agreements, worth $9 billion, were reached with different countries to modernise the PAF. He said, there were 46 F-16 aircrafts in the PAF, including 14 F-16 aircrafts obtained from the US almost free of cost.
http://theasiandefence.blogspot.com/2009/03/whole-of-paf-made-nuclear-chief-of-air.html
More Chinese products will bought for sure...
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You are right these are just items that we know, there is a lot more going on behind the scene and we will see new contract between Pakistan and China in future like a heavy frigate purchase too meet the air defense requirements of PN.
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