London: Documents claimed to be in the possession of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)، It allegedly shows that despite the continued denial of Islamabad, Pakistan has sold arms to Ukraine.
The BBC Urdu said in a recent report that former Army Chief General (R) Qamar Javed Bajwa said on August 12, 2022, Addressing the passing out parade of the British Royal Military Academy.
As the now retired military chief saw relations between the two countries reach “ historic heights”، A British military cargo plane landed at Pakistan Air Force Base Noor Khan in Rawalpindi. The plane, as reported by the BBC, landed at the same base five times in total.
According to the report, the plane took off on the same route — from Noor Khan Airbase to the British military base in Cyprus and from there to Romania. This happened during the Russian invasion of Romania’s neighboring country Ukraine.
Pakistan has repeatedly denied the presence of Pakistani weapons in Ukraine and its Foreign Office has said that Pakistan and Russia are completely neutral in the Ukraine conflict.
According to the report, the “ Documents in the possession of the BBC show that in August 2022, Pakistan entered into arms sales agreements with two private US military companies worth $ 364 million under which Pakistan sold 155 mm shells to these companies.”
According to a BBC investigation, US companies called ’ Global Military ‘ and ’ Northrop Grumman ‘ bought two 155 mm shells with Pakistan There are agreements.
Details of agreements obtained from the US Federal Procurement Data System show that these weapons (155 mm shells) were purchased from Pakistan while on both agreements Signed on August 17, 2022, ending in October this year.
These contracts were specifically for shells of 155 mm. Global Military $232 Million and Northrop Grumman.$ was awarded a contract of ” 131 million۔
