ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani navy took delivery Tuesday of two state-of-the-art, US-made surveillance aircraft nine months after Islamist militants destroyed two similar planes, officials said. Pakistan said the P3C aircraft, modified with the latest avionics, are designed to improve surveillance in the North Arabian sea, one of the world's most important shipping routes deeply troubled by Somali piracy. "The two aircraft have been delivered to the Pakistan navy. These aircraft have been provided under the foreign military funding programme," a spokesman for the US embassy in Islamabad, told AFP. Relations between Pakistan and the United States were severely damaged last year by a covert American raid that killed Osama bin Laden and air strikes that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, and the alliance remains tense. The navy said the aircraft would help "maintain requisite vigil in our vital area of interest in the North Arabian Sea", which it said was "home to intense maritime activity both legal and illegal and thus warrants continuous guard". Pakistan is to receive six P3C aircraft from the United States in three batches. The first two, received in 2010, were destroyed during a 17-hour siege of a key naval base in Karachi last May blamed on the Taliban. Pakistan receives US surveillance aircraft - The Times of India
Congrats to pak, Still manages to blackmail ameerica, milking her boobs Pakistan is the only country in the world who gets freee stuff and $$$$$$$ becoz of its LOCATION
US is keeping on feeding Pakistan with goodies that can be used against India. Their threats and warnings are for name sake. The pre cold war era immoral relationship is still on and alive.
Please Imports more oil from Iran .Give uncle SAM _|_ finger salute whenever they talk about alliance..
Why we f**king care about their Interest ,time to sell some bhramos and SAM battery to CUBA and let them cry and whin about it..
Naa.. we dont have balls to show them.. they can talk about all day on cutting jobs outsourced to India, cutting down work visas, block technology transfer to India (ELTA radar from Israel) and still get big deals... and all the while feeding billions to Pak military which is ultimately used to bleed the nation through proxies and terror from across using religious nutjobs.
As I always maintain even in other forums that tommorow if China collapse ,its our turn. Let them f**kin plead nd pay for their Karma.
they recently got the F-16 MLU's and now this. as I have said it's all about control. if the U.S thinks they can control pakistan, then they will give these weapons. U.S would keep giving them as and when it sees it fit. it's good to have close relationship with china now.
this Obama Bloke is the worst thing that can happen to Indo-Us relations..... atleast with bush we had better co-operation between us than with the Porki- American co-operation... US blocks all tech transfers to our country while providing these aircrafts to Porks and they still want us to be their Allies do i sense BS in the above statement????
