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Pakistan to get 60 US copters by December

IRNA

Islamabad, Oct 4, IRNA - The United States would sell 60 attack 
helicopters to Pakistan by December, local media reported Saturday. 
According to the daily Dawn, the Bush administration had given 
approval to sale of the helicopters to Islamabad. 
These choppers, including Cobra gunships, are meant to help 
Pakistan fight Taliban and Al-Qaeda in the tribal area (Pak-Afghan 
border), the newspaper said. 
Pakistan hopes the helicopters would be delivered by December and 
differences over US request for Pakistani troops for Iraq would not 
delay their delivery. 
Pakistan`s President General Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister 
Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali strongly raised the arms imbalance with 
India during their meetings with American leadership. 
The newspaper said, after talks with Jamali, US Secretary of State
Colin Powell told Pakistani newsmen in Washington that his country 
would play its role in maintaining the balance of power in South Asia.
Premier Jamali is on a ten-day visit to the United States on the 
invitation of US President George W Bush following a visit by 
President Musharraf to US a week earlier to address the UN General 
Assembly where he also met with US president. 
MHA/TSH/211 
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