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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Pak, Brunei lay down roadmap on defence co-op: Daily Mail

ISLAMABAD—Pakistan and Brunei will cooperate in the field of defence particularly joint military exercises, technology transfer and procurement of defence hardware from Pakistan. This was decided in the third meeting of Pakistan-Brunei Joint Working Committee on Defence Cooperation held in Brunei last night, says a message from Pakistan’s High Commission in Kuala Lumpur issued here Friday.

The meeting was co-chaired by Secretary Defence, Lt Gen ® Syed Athar Ali from Pakistan side and Permanent Secretary (Defence) Dato Majid from the Brunian side. Pakistan’s High Commissioner to Brunei, Major General ® Syed Haider Jawed also attended the meeting. The meeting took stock of the present level of Pakistan-Brunei bilateral defence relations and observed that there were immense possibilities for their expansion.

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Pakistan offers to sell Kuwait Al-Khalid tanks: Daily Times

NEW YORK: Pakistan has offered to sell its indigenously built Al-Khalid battle tanks to Kuwait to bolster the sovereign Arab emirate’s defence, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said on Wednesday. Addressing a press briefing following meetings between President Asif Ali Zardari and world leaders on the sidelines of a United Nations meeting on interfaith dialogue, the foreign minister said President Zardari had invited Kuwait to attend the International Defence Exhibition and Seminar, IDEAS-2008, in November, at a meeting with its ruler – Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. Zardari said the two countries had a range political, economic and defence ties, but stressed that relations needed to be strengthened further.

Qureshi said the president had also invited the Kuwaiti ruler to visit Pakistan – and the offer was accepted. The minister said Pakistan offered the Al-Khalid tanks to Kuwait describing them as an “attractive purchase because of their price and quality”.

The tank weighs of 46 tonnes and carries three troops. Fitted with a 1,200-horsepower, water-cooled diesel engine and a maximum speed of 70 kilometres per hour, it has a 125-millimetre, smooth bore main gun, a 7.62-millimetre, co-axial machinegun and a 12.7-millimetre, remote-firing anti-aircraft gun. The power-to-weight ratio is 26 horsepower per tonne.

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