Iqbal Khan
Stockholm International Peace
Research Institute (SIPRI) has released the data in its annual report, on
March11, captioned ‘Trends in International Arms Transfers-2018′; for a
five-year period (2014-2018). According to report, India has been among the top
five arms importers in the world for decades. India was the world’s
second-largest arms importer from 2014-18; it accounted for 9.5 per cent of the
global total.
While for the period 2013-2017,
India accounted for 13 per cent of global arms imports and was the world’s
largest importer. Regarding tensions between Pakistan and India, a senior
researcher with SIPRI has maintained that India’s growing demands for weapons
is driven by its fear of Pakistan …read more
Source: The Frontier Post
