F-16 Fighting Falcon News

March 6, 1998 (by Lieven Dewitte) - Pakistan said on Saturday it would go to court in the United States to seek a refund of $658 million it paid for 28 F-16 fighter planes that Washington has refused to supply because of legal hurdles.
Delivery of the planes would come up against the so-called Pressler Amendment law under which U.S. arms supplies to Pakistan were stopped in 1990 over a nuclear weapons row. As Washington had been unable to sell the planes to a third party so payments could be made to Pakistan. The 1985 Pressler Amendment bans military aid to Pakistan unless the U.S. president can certify to Congress that Islamabad has no nuclear weapons and is not trying to develop them.