Wednesday, August 22, 2012

PAKISTAN: DEFENCE BUDGET

US has to carefully monitor direction of defence spending in Pakistan

Yet, the US & IMF indirectly strengthen these jehadis. Terrorists in PoK received monthly salary hikes from the Pakistani establishment to the range of Rs.10,000 per month up from around Rs.8,000 recently, as per intelligence reports. The Taliban, which pays its militants Rs.2 lakh for every NATO soldier killed, had its roots in Pakistan. The father of Pakistan’s nuclear weapon programme Dr. A. Q. Khan was quite an unworthy parent; accused of leaking nuclear materials to North Korea and Iran.

Paraphrase commentator Jim Hoagland puts it thus, “Oppose or ignore us at our — and your — peril is the unofficial national motto of Islamabad”. As an ill-governed and terror ridden nuclear power, Pakistan is too valuable to be left alone, else it could be the first macabre instance of terrorists having a state! But US must realise that blindly supporting Pakistan is no less perilous in the long run.