According to foreign media, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) has said in a report that from 2016 to 2020, Pakistan was one of the major importers of heavy weapons in the Asia-Pacific region.
According to the SPRI report, the international arms trade did not show an increase between 2016 and 2020, but the United States, France and Germany increased their arms exports.
On the other hand, international arms sales from Russia and China declined during this period.
According to the report, in the last five years, India, Australia, China, South Korea and Pakistan have been the largest importers of arms in the Asia-Pacific region.
China, which was the world’s fifth-largest exporter of heavy weapons between 2016 and 2017, saw its exports fall 7.8% between 2011-2016 and 2016-17.
In the last five years, China’s exports accounted for 5.2 per cent of total arms exports, while Pakistan, Bangladesh and Algeria were the largest arms buyers from China.
According to the report, the supply of heavy weapons in the world has declined significantly over the past five years, which has been steadily increasing for more than a decade.
