India has a trade partnership of 22 billion dollars with Netherlands alone, whereas pakistan does trade of only 15 billion dollars with the whole of Europe, which can benefit India. Apart from this, Netherlands wants to enter India's defense market and Delhi is also ready to give it this opportunity, so there are chances that the connection between Netherlands and pakistan can be weakened through economic power.
Will Netherlands mess with india for Pakistan?
Netherlands will also consider whether it should mess with such a big trade partner for Pakistan. It will also face the danger that if it continues to supply arms to pakistan, then a situation like Turkey can arise for it too. Like china or turkey, Netherlands does not have any political preference regarding pakistan, nor are its relations with India bad that it should spoil things because of Pakistan.
Netherlands is Pakistan's second largest arms supplier
Pakistan gets weapons from three countries, of which china is the largest supplier, Netherlands is second and Turkey is third. 81 percent of Pakistan's weapons stockpile is Chinese, 5.5 percent weapons are from Netherlands and 3.8 percent weapons have come from Turkey. This is data for five years from 2020 to 2024. If we talk only about 2024, during that time Turkey had supplied more weapons to pakistan than Netherlands.
Netherlands supplies weapons to Pakistan's Navy
Like America, britain and France, Netherlands has also been supplying weapons to pakistan for years, which are mostly for the sea. In the 90s, these countries had given four mine hunters to Pakistan's Navy. Mine hunters work to detect naval mines in the sea and destroy them. In the year 2021, pakistan bought two more secondhand naval mine hunters and now the netherlands is preparing more warships. In the year 2017, pakistan had a deal with it, under which an agreement was made to build two petrol ships by a Dutch company.
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