*KARACHI – Pakistan Navy to get 8 new state of the art submarines fromChina.*
Pakistan in collaboration with China will manufacture eight submarines forits maritime force.
“The production will start in one to one-and-a-half-year time,” saidKarachi Shipyard and Engineering Works Project Director Commodore MJahanzeb Ahsan at the IDEAS 2018, a four-day long event held at the KarachiExpo Centre.
“Half of the eight submarines of advanced version will be developed inChina while the other half in Pakistan,” said Commodore Ahsan.
Pakistan and China developed understanding for the manufacturing of thesubmarines sometime in 2011, he said.