The government announced on Tuesday an 11 per cent increase in defence spending for the next fiscal.
According to the budget documents placed before parliament, the government has allocated Rs700 billion to the armed forces for the fiscal year 2014-15 against the revised amount of Rs629.5bn for the outgoing year.
The allocation is about 18 per cent of the national budget and 2.36 per cent of the GDP.
The 11 per cent increase in defence spending appears to be significant when compared to the two per cent increase in the total budgetary outlay for the next year over the outgoing year.