Canada may end its 11-year arms embargo on Pakistan so that it can take on the resurgent Taliban challenge in the country's north-west.
Canada's Defence Minister Peter MacKay, who is on a visit to Pakistan where Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani
asked his country to end the arms embargo to help it fight the raging Taliban insurgency.
MacKay told the
Toronto Star in an interview from Islamabad that Canada is considering ending its 11-year embargo on the sale of military technology to Pakistan.
"Doing military business in the future, and trade in particular, is something that is under consideration,"
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MacKay said after meeting with President Asif Ali Zardari. However, he added, "We are not there yet".