For Pakistan.... best solution so kill all these corrupt politicians and Generals.... Call techno-crate govt and allow new technical faces (those who have expertise in Finance, Military, Business, Sports). Change the atmosphere of corruption hang all old Generals because of whom today's Pakistan is suffering.
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Control Corruption... and buy ANYTHING! still after only 10% of TAX collection... your military and govt spending and running organizations.... when Pakistan tax collection close to 50 % at-least our forces will buy ANYTHING.... but before KILL-N-KICK Corrupt GENERALS and LEADERS!
Indian MMRCA project has been going on for a long time. Everyone in PAF and Ministry of Defence as well at the Joint Staff Hqrs in Islamabad must be aware that it will come sooner or later. So what is the big problem now?
PAF has been cash starved since its birth mainly because Pakistan has always had shortage of foreign exchange. One of the main reasons for Pakistan joining Cento, SEATO and all those treaties was to get military hardware on the cheap.
Pakistan foreign policy has been Indian centric since birth. This myopic view plus the misguided thinking that Pakistan is a fortress of Islam and we must interfere in places like Chechnya etc. is the real cause of our ills. Why do you think that US is providing Nuclear Technology to India and not to Pakistan?
Let us face it, there is a strong section of Pakistan society which sympathises with the Taliban and Al-Qaida and completely ignores dastardly attacks by the so called Islamic terrorists. Recently TTP captured and beheaded 15 Pak Army soldiers and even released a video showing this heinous act. Did anyone even care about it? On the other hand 24 Pak soldiers were killed at Salala by the US and the whole nation is up in arms. Both the act are equally abhorrent but treated totally differently by the national media and everyone else including the Army? Do we think that it is okay by Taliban to kill Pak soldiers because they are doing it in the name of Islam?
Such dichotomy in the national thinking is what the real problem is. Most of the Western world thinks that there is a real danger of Pak Nukes falling in the hands of Taliban or their sympathizers. Regretfully Imran Khan is among such politicians, he is fuming against US in every speech, but did he even condemned TTP for their butchery? Imran can possibly win next election; therefore fears of the West are genuine. Corrupt military and politicians simply make the matter worse that is all. Killing off all the corrupt politicians is not going to solve the problem. Even if we had the money, it is doubtful that the West would sell us the hardware that we want. Remember that Swedish Grippen couldn’t be sold to us because of US Engine.
Wars are fought and won with strong economy. Pakistan economy is a pigmy compared to India, so let us not try to ‘keep up with the Joneses’. In the foreseeable future Pak economy will not be strong enough to attack India and come out on top. Therefore all we need is a lean and mean PAF strong enough to make it too costly for Indian to attack Pakistan. Think PAF is on the right track towards achieving this objective.
I totally agree with your conclusions though. For the time being any funds that we can spare should go toward resolving the gas and electric load shedding problem as it is crippling Pak economy and resovling law and order situation; both are necessary for peace and prosperity.
