ISLAMABAD, May 1 (Xinhua) -- Pakistan officials said the country is involved in discussions with the United States to get F-16 fighter planes though the Obama administration was forced to halt the financial aid to Pakistan to purchase the aircraft.
Despite the U.S. administration's support on F-16s for Pakistan, American lawmakers at a recent meeting of a subcommittee of the Congress foreign affairs panel objected to using taxpayers'money to fund the sale, according to reports. Senator Bob Corker, chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, had stopped funding the deal.
Pakistan was to pay only 270 million U.S. dollars for eight jets, valued at over 700 million U.S. dollars. The Obama administration was to cover the remaining 430 million U.S. dollars through the U.S. foreign military financing budget.
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