**The Pakistani air force says it has acquired the first of four Awacs surveillance aircraft from Sweden to boost its air defences. **
An air force statement said the Saab-2000 Awacs aircraft landed at one of the main operating bases on Tuesday.
The statement did not say anything about the cost of the deal and when the remaining three would be delivered.
The acquisition of the Awacs comes after arch-rival India bought its own Awacs systems from Israel in June.
The BBC’s Syed Shoaib Hasan in Islamabad says the Saab-2000 aircraft will boost the Pakistani military’s early warning capabilities in the event of hostilities with India.
The aircraft can be used to provide information on all three spheres of military conflict - aerial, naval and land based.
Our correspondent says the Awacs planes and advanced F-16 fighter-bombers soon to arrive from the US will provide a qualitative edge to the Pakistan air force against its numerically superior adversary.
Pakistani military officials say the planes also have a greater range than similar aircraft in the Indian military and can be used as airborne command centres in case of a possible nuclear conflict.
Well we should stop corruption and put that money in education.
No compromise on defence bc no country no education.
Daily threats from India which is bigger country then pakistan should make u think twice to compromise on defence.
there are much better ways to increase education budget.
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No compromise on defence bc no country no education.
Daily threats from India ...
agreed! No defense and we will quickly resemble Islamic Emirates of Somalia or worse the basket case Islamic Emirates of Afghanistan.
Daily threats from Hindutva in the Eastern borders for sure.
And
Also the mortal threat from Islamists from the Western borders and the Middle East.
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there are much better ways to increase education budget.
Not only that we need to increase funding for education,
We also need to emphasize the "Right education",
And that means,
Taking the religion out of schools in order to save our youth from religious corruption where they become useless suicider drones.
Once the religion is out of schools, and all the mad rassahs are closed, we can then clean up the religion and bring the basic tenants of our religion back in the schools.
These basic tenants include, Truth, cleanliness, and honesty.
That's all.
No Jihad, and no Islamist brotherhood, no fraud in the name of mosque or Mullah, as these are the ideas from hell (at least for Pakistan).
