Nearly a month after Pakistan's catastrophic earthquake, President Pervez Musharraf said he was postponing the purchase of F-16 warplanes from the United States to provide more relief to quake victims. Musharraf, visiting quake-hit regions on the Eid al-Fitr holiday on Friday, also said the world had not responded to the quake as generously as to last year's Asian tsunami, according to a report of the Associated Press. "I am going to postpone that," Musharraf told reporters when asked about the purchase of the aircraft. "We want to bring maximum relief and reconstruction effort," he said, while stressing that maintaining national security was also important. The United States said last year it was willing to sell Pakistan F-16 fighters and Islamabad has been expected to buy about 80 of them.
