India world's biggest arms importer: SIPRI think tank

India world's biggest arms importer: SIPRI think tank
Stockholm (AFP) March 14, 2011 - India has been the world's biggest weapons importer over the last five years, Swedish think-tank SIPRI reported Monday, naming four Asian countries among the top five arms importers. The report also highlighted how the world's major arms supplying countries had in recent years competed for trade in Libya, and in other Arab countries gripped by the recent wave of pro-democracy uprisings. ... more