Pakistan allocates â¹64,000 crore for defence
Pakistan Finance Minister Miftah Ismail on Friday allocated $9.6 billion (nearly â¹64,000 crore) for defence in the 2018-19 fiscal, an 18% increase from the last fiscal. The allocation represents the highest growth in Pakistan's defence budget in more than a decade. However, the allocation does not include military pension bill and spending on major weapons procurement.n