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Monday, November 25, 2024  
22 Jumada Al-Awwal 1446  

Six F-16 aircrafts to arrive in Pakistan today

US Administration will hand over six more F-16 Block-52 fighter jets, which will enter in Pakistan territory on Saturday flying by Pakistani pilots.

The jets will land at the Shahbaz Airbase of Pakistan Air Force (PAF) in Jacobabad.

These fighter planes would be kept at Shahbaz Airbase, which had been turned into a formal operation base, and Pakistan would utilise these planes for its operational objectives, they maintained.

According to Pak-US agreement, it had been decided that in the first phase, US would hand over 3 F-16 Block C fighter jets to Pakistan, whereas in the second phase five F-16 Block 52 C fighter jets would be handed over within one and a half months. While overall a total of 18 fighter jets would be inducted in the PAF fleet by the end of this year.