The New Zealand government says it's buying some of the F-16 fighter aircraft Pakistan bought from the United States in 1989 but never received, because of a ban by Congress.

New Zealand diplomats in Washington said Pakistan would get one hundred and five million dollars from the deal.

Pakistan's Foreign Minister Sartaj Aziz has said Pakistan paid six-hundred-and-eighty-million dollars for the aircraft, and has got back only two-hundred-and-thirty-five-million dollars so far.Congress blocked delivery because of concern over Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme.