‘Pakistan selling weapons to US, UK’

Pakistan has been selling weapons to the United States and the United Kingdom, the Parliament was told.

Speaking in the National Assembly, minister for defence production Rana Tanveer Hussain said during 2013, UK bought 69 Pakistan-made sub-machine guns (SMG MP5) and 250 G-3 rifles.

Giving details of the arms transactions in the last three years, the minister said the US bought 371 G-3 rifles, during 2013, while it bought 520 SMGs during 2014, along with 350 SMGs. US also purchased 185 SMGs during the previous year.

Kenya bought 3000 G3 rifles during 2014, and 600 same combat rifles during previous year. Luxembourg remained the major buyer of Pakistani rifles. During 2015, Luxembourg bought 3000 G3 rifles. Presently, deals of supplying 65 SMGs to US, while 200 machine guns to Saudi Arabia were in progress, the minister said.