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By Adrian David
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has welcomed Pakistan’s offer to jointly manufacture tactical unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and satellites to boost our defence industry.
Revealing this, Defence Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said that Pakistan had made an impression on him of its capability to manufacture the said items on a large scale, which could mutually benefit both nations.
“Pakistan was convincing in terms of producing long-range UAVs, along with other strategic assets and equipment.
“With such offers, Malaysia need not depend solely on a country for such expertise,” he told newsmen after receiving a courtesy call from Pakistan’s joint chiefs of staff chairman Gen Khalid Shameem Wynne at the former’s officer in Jalan Padang Tembak, today.
Zahid said Khalid had expressed greater defence cooperation with Malaysia in terms of other areas including exercises, training, education and exchange of officers.
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