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The Congress connected Wednesday (October 8, 2025) took a swipe astatine the Modi Government implicit the U.S. reportedly acceptable to proviso Raytheon Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM) to Pakistan, saying however rapidly "diplomatic setbacks" accumulate.
Congress wide caput in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh said that according to a nationalist notification of the U.S. Department of War connected subject contracts awarded connected May 7, 2025, beforehand medium-range air-to-air missiles made by Raytheon were to beryllium supplied to Canada, Taiwan, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Sweden, Czech Republic, South Korea, Kuwait, Japan, Finland, Germany, U.K., Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Belgium, Australia, Turkey, Spain, and Lithuania.
However, the U.S. Department of War's nationalist notification connected subject contracts awarded connected September 30, 2025, includes countries similar Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Turkey, and Pakistan for the proviso of the Raytheon air-to-air missiles, Mr. Ramesh said and shared some notifications of the U.S. Department of War.
"How rapidly the diplomatic clime changes, and however rapidly diplomatic setbacks accumulate!" Mr. Ramesh said.
An arms declaration precocious notified by the United States Department of War (DoW), formerly Department of Defence, lists Pakistan among the buyers for AIM-120 AMRAAM, Pakistani paper 'The Express Tribune' had reported.
"This declaration involves overseas subject income to U.K., Poland, Pakistan, Germany, Finland, Australia, Romania, Qatar, Oman, South Korea, Greece, Switzerland, Portugal, Singapore, Netherlands, Czech Republic, Japan, Slovakia, Denmark, Canada, Belgium, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Italy, Norway, Spain, Kuwait, Finland, Sweden, Taiwan, Lithuania, Israel, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Turkey." the notification stated.
It added that enactment connected the bid is expected to beryllium completed by the extremity of May 2030.
