{"id":54131,"date":"2026-01-07T09:27:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T09:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=54131"},"modified":"2026-01-07T09:35:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T09:35:39","slug":"pakistan-eyes-defence-pact-with-bangladesh-sale-of-jf-17-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=54131","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan eyes defence pact with Bangladesh, sale of JF-17 jets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Reuters)   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ISLAMABAD, Jan 7  &#8211; The air force chiefs of Pakistan and Bangladesh held talks on a potential pact covering the sale of JF-17 Thunder fighter jets to Dhaka, Pakistan&#8217;s military said, as Islamabad widens its arms supply ambitions and beefs up ties with Bangladesh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The talks in Islamabad come as Pakistan looks to capitalise on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/how-pakistan-shot-down-indias-cutting-edge-fighter-using-chinese-gear-2025-08-02\/\">success of its air force<\/a>&nbsp;in the conflict with arch-foe India in May last year, the worst fighting in nearly three decades between the nuclear-armed neighbours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pakistan&#8217;s Air Chief Marshal Zaheer Ahmed Baber Sidhu and Bangladesh counterpart Hasan Mahmood Khan had detailed talks on procurement of the JF-17 Thunder, a multi-role combat aircraft jointly developed with China, the military&#8217;s press wing said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pakistan has also assured Bangladesh of the &#8220;fast-tracked delivery of Super Mushshak trainer aircraft, along with a complete training and long-term support ecosystem,&#8221; it added in Tuesday&#8217;s statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) ISLAMABAD, Jan 7 &#8211; The air force chiefs of Pakistan and Bangladesh held talks on a potential pact covering the sale of JF-17 Thunder fighter jets to Dhaka, Pakistan&#8217;s military said, as Islamabad widens its arms supply ambitions and beefs up ties with Bangladesh. The talks in Islamabad come as Pakistan looks to capitalise on the&nbsp;success of its air force&nbsp;in the conflict with arch-foe India in May last year, the worst fighting in nearly three decades between the nuclear-armed neighbours. Pakistan&#8217;s Air Chief Marshal Zaheer Ahmed Baber Sidhu and Bangladesh counterpart Hasan Mahmood Khan had detailed talks on procurement&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54138,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54131"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54135,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54131\/revisions\/54135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}