Pakistan says it has no aggressive designs

Islamabad, Sep 10 (UNI) Pakistan today said it had no aggressive designs against any one including India.

''Our defence programme was defensive in nature,'' foreign ministry spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam told a press briefing here.

She was commenting on Indian Defence Minister A K Antony's remarks that supply of American arms to Pakistan would disturb conventional balance in the region.

She said Indian's current year defence budget stands at 24 billion dollars with 20 per cent increase over the last year.

'' India also has plans to make defence purchases worth 30 billion dollars in the next ten years,'' Ms Aslam said, adding it has recently issued tenders for the purchase of 126 combat aircraft for 10 billion dollars.

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