Russia has always been more close to India .
since the last year’s visit of Musharraf to Russia its ties with Pakistan are strenghtening and as Russia has done the “business” wid India previously its a good sign for us to have more defence relations wid Russia
Moscow, July 10 (PTI) Russia’s top battle tank plant today signed a production deal with Pakistan, a day after the country’s Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri held talks with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov.
The ‘tank production’ deal between Uralvagonzavod plant and Islamabad was signed on the sideines of “UralArmsExpo” exhibition in Nizhny Tagil in the Sverdlovsk region, Itar-Tass reported quoting an official of local defence industries.
“We can say that tank-production cotracts between Uralvagonzavod and Pakistan have been clinched,” Director of the union of regionl defence industry Viktor Batuyev was quoted as saying by the agency without giving any details.
After his talks with Lavrov yesterday, Kasuri said both Moscow and Islamabad had ageed to ugrade their bilateral relations, while the Rusian Foreign Minister said no concrete defence cooperation plans were discussed by them.
Earlier Nizhny Tagil -based Uralvagonzavod - world’s largest tank production facility - has supplied over 300 T-90S main battle tanks to India to restore the imbalance created by the sale of T-80UD tanks to Pakistan by Ukraine. PTI
link : Press Trust Of India