Pakistan gets Rs50m export orders for hunting arms: The News

Saturday, April 11, 2009
By By our correspondent
PESHAWAR: After successfully displaying arms during an international exhibition, the Pakistan Hunting and Sporting Arms Development Company (PHSADC) has got export orders worth around Rs50 million.

Talking to The News, PHSADC Chairman Nauman Wazir informed they had received orders from 11 international companies for around 5,000 guns and pistols. The development came after the company displayed arms at international exhibition IWA held in Germany in March.

“We had made arrangements for display of guns produced by Pakistani artisans in the exhibition and got a positive response,” Wazir said, adding in the three-day fair, which was the second biggest in the world after Shot Show in Florida (US), about 25 to 30 companies showed interest in the products.

He went on to say 11 companies had placed orders for purchase of 5,000 to 6,000 guns and pistols manufactured by gunsmiths of Peshawar and Darra Adam Khel arms cluster. Negotiations, he added, with some other companies were still continuing and more orders may be received.

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