Pakistan in tenth place in the list of the world's biggest importers of weapons by 2015

Pakistan was tenth largest arms importer in the world in 2015, at one point from nine the previous year, a military think tank database reveals, while Saudi Arabia was leading importer of arms in the world, closely followed by India.

International Peace Research Institute shows, India was the top weapons importer in 2014.
Pakistan spent $ 735 million on imports of weapons by 2015. In comparison, India imported arms worth $ 3, 078m.

The biggest exporter of weapons to Pakistan in the year 2015, China was the transfers of weapons worth $ 565 million, followed by the United States of America (us) with $ 66 m in transfers of weapons.

Pakistan is also the largest Chinese merchant on the weapons, which represents 35 percent of the total turnover from the sale of weapons in the country,

Close military ties between Pakistan and China, sometimes sparked tension with India, which is trying to increase its own homegrown weapons industry and has long been objections to other countries by forging defence with Pakistan.

Earlier this month, India has expressed concerns about the sale of eight F-16 fighter jets from the u.s. to Pakistan, he said: we discord with their rationale , that such arms transfers contribute to the fight against terrorism".

Us fears India, claiming he refused to transfer was made in the interest of regional stability and the fight against terrorism effort.

The biggest exporter of weapons to India is Russia with arms transfers worth $ 1.964 m, followed by Israel and the United States (us) with $ 316m and $ 302 m in transfers, respectively.

The export of Chinese weapons against the overvoltage

SIPRI's report on global arms transfers Exhibition China has almost doubled its arms exports in the past five years as the world's third largest exporter of weapons poured into the capital to develop advanced weapons manufacturing industry.

Chinese exports of main ramen, which excludes most of the light weapons, increased in the period 88pc 2011-2015, compared with the previous five-year term, said SIPRI.

The country still represented only 3.7 pc global arms exports from 2011-2015, which lags far behind the us and Russia, by far the world's two biggest exporters of weapons. The UNITED STATES exported $ 10.484 metres with weapons in 2015, while Russia exported $ 5.483 yards during the same time period.

The United States and Russia saw the weapons exports to rise by 27pc and 28pc respectively, while the export of large arms from France and Germany, the fourth and the fifth largest exporter of weapons, the same period.

China has invested billions growing its homegrown weapons industry to support its growing naval ambitions in the China Sea and the Indian Ocean, and also with an eye towards foreign markets for its relatively low cost technology.

The total military budget in 2015 was 886.9 billion yuan ($ 141.45 billion), up 10 from the previous year.

In the year 2011 to 2015, Chinese imports of weapons fell 25pc compared with the previous five-year period, which signals a growing confidence in the country despite armed to Take on key areas of weakness, writes in the report.

China still needs to import weapons, with large transport aircraft, helicopters, as well as the engines of aircraft, vehicles and boats, according to the report.

China, the world's second largest economy, which has been signed by the company in 2015 for the purchase of air defense systems and two dozen combat aircraft from Russia, its largest supplier of weaponry.