The jets landed 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.

After the induction of eighteen F-16 Block-52 Jets the PAF fleet of F-16s would swell to 63.

Pakistani officials said that discussion with US authorities is going on for another fourteen F16 Block 52 C jets and they were optimistic of delivery of these jets.