The money that Pakistan spent from July 2016 to December 2017 is over and above the regular defence spending and special defence development programmes, said the sources in the Ministry of Finance. In November last year, the finance ministry had given Rs18.1 billion for fencing the porous Pak-Afghan border and making other arrangement there, said the sources. The finance ministry sources said that Pakistan was making huge spending despite fiscal constraints to clear the mess left out by the US. An amount of Rs40 billion has been spent on Special Security Divisions since August 2016. They said that in 2016-17, another Rs25 billion was given for the Special Security Divisions-related expenditures, and the country also spent more than Rs9 billion to improve its aerial defence.

Source: The Express Tribune January 04, 2018 04:07 UTC