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Promised earlier to eat grass, that time has come. It is time that Pakistani people and its pampered military to eat grass in mouth full. Even Chinese loans, Arabia loans, IMF loans has done nothing to Pakistani finances. It is time to dismantle the overgrown Pakistani state.
Pakistan Army is independent of Budgets and even US handouts. Post 1947, while India’s Neta Babus swallowed it up for their personal benefit, Pak Army created a vehicle through Habibson’s in London to invest Britain’s World War 2 compensation for lives lost. Apart from this they own enormous industrial and agricultural holdings within Pakistan. Like the PLA, CIA or Iran Revolutionary Guards they are capable of sustaining themselves in hard times.
India, a much larger economy, is facing acute fiscal stress. Recently there was a news item that TA and DA bills in the armed forces were not being processed for want of funds. Some restrictions on CSD purchases of cars. Sharmaane ki kya baat hai. Both countries are struggling with similar problems of underdevelopment. It is facile to believe that Uncle Sam – or even Iron Brother – is picking up the tab for the Pakistani military. One or two billion dollars a year at the most, when Pakistan’s help was sought for the war on terror. 2. Both countries are stalemated courtesy nuclear deterrence. Neither can compel the other to change its trajectory or behaviour through military dominance. I don’t think even a million Indians know the full form of BIMSTEC. It is as functionally as useful as a platypus. Time to dust off the SAARC folder, have its next meeting soon in Pakistan.
Promised earlier to eat grass, that time has come. It is time that Pakistani people and its pampered military to eat grass in mouth full. Even Chinese loans, Arabia loans, IMF loans has done nothing to Pakistani finances. It is time to dismantle the overgrown Pakistani state.
Pakistan Army is independent of Budgets and even US handouts. Post 1947, while India’s Neta Babus swallowed it up for their personal benefit, Pak Army created a vehicle through Habibson’s in London to invest Britain’s World War 2 compensation for lives lost. Apart from this they own enormous industrial and agricultural holdings within Pakistan. Like the PLA, CIA or Iran Revolutionary Guards they are capable of sustaining themselves in hard times.
India, a much larger economy, is facing acute fiscal stress. Recently there was a news item that TA and DA bills in the armed forces were not being processed for want of funds. Some restrictions on CSD purchases of cars. Sharmaane ki kya baat hai. Both countries are struggling with similar problems of underdevelopment. It is facile to believe that Uncle Sam – or even Iron Brother – is picking up the tab for the Pakistani military. One or two billion dollars a year at the most, when Pakistan’s help was sought for the war on terror. 2. Both countries are stalemated courtesy nuclear deterrence. Neither can compel the other to change its trajectory or behaviour through military dominance. I don’t think even a million Indians know the full form of BIMSTEC. It is as functionally as useful as a platypus. Time to dust off the SAARC folder, have its next meeting soon in Pakistan.