Army ready to eat LESS so that Brethren can eat more!

[Xeric]

"you dont need to make sacrifice and your duty is to guard and protect the nation".

Yes we need to!
Dont tell us what to do in our country, let's not try to implement 'thuings' that dont 'all-in-one-fit'

Our duty is to guard and portect the nation and nobody knows it better than the indians that we are doing it Well! As for the the other jobs, well it is Pakistanis who call upon the Army to do many many and many jobs that were actualy meant to be done by the people, their elected representatives and govt institutions, but most if the time it has not been happening. And it is again the Pakistani people who distribute sweets when the Army has been taking over, and most important of all, we dont have many 'clean', dedicated and 'un-corrupt' politicians as you have.

BUT, before you jump up again slaughering me for what i have said, let me make it clear that this does not at all justify Army's involvement in civilian affairs in any case. It is just plain wrong! And hopefully it aint hapening again. Actally the Army had never wanted it.

 

[qsaark]

Are you doing some kinda charity!?

Alahmdulillah, Two percent of my total income every month goes to the charity, mainly to the St. Jude's Children Cancer Hospital, and remaining to others. In May alone, I sent $3,500 to Pakistan exclusively for charity.

First, the figure your quotes is wrong.

I thanked Agno for the correction.

Second, it is not just the Army who 'eats' up this so called 2.5 % of yours, it includes all the Armed Forces!! i wonder why dont the other two services bother you? Oh i got it now, it was the Army that stepped on your tail last time, isnt it?

Please read what I wrote:

and to be honest with you, our Armed forces who eatup ~4.5% of GDP,

I never said 'Army' eats up all.

Third, if you want to see the military's actual expenditures, and also want to know who hard pressed the military is as regards to its domestic expenditures and also how much pain is taken to make the most out of its budget try to read my "Army's Nation building Effort" http://www.defence.pk/forums/355415-post11.html thread, i have given some (regarding very obvious expenditures)hints there about it!

I'll have a look at it, and will come back to you once I had some time. At this time, all I can say is that there is no transparency or any accountability on Armed Forces expenditures. So no one really knows, what happens to all that money.

i never knew that you so obsessed with the military that you would just blindly accuse it of anything while keeping your brains at a far distance, thereby doubting your intellect that sweet degree that you have!

Lastly, Enigma you are an Army officer, why are you getting personal? Did I ever get personal with you? What this debate has to do with my Science degree? I never took lessons on Army expenditures while doing my studies.

 

[Xeric]

Alahmdulillah, Two percent of my total income every month goes to the charity, mainly to the St. Jude's Children Cancer Hospital, and remaining to others.

Guud for you.
But i was referring to the fact that if a country decides to spend X amount on its military, it is not something given in charity. Pay or Die!

I thanked Agno for the correction.

Roger that.

Please read what I wrote:I never said 'Army' eats up all.

Well i didnt mistake it keeping the obsessions that you have against the Army

I'll have a look at it, and will come back to you once I had some time. At this time, all I can say is that there is no transparency or any accountability on Armed Forces expenditures. So no one really knows, what happens to all that money.

You might be guud at bio and chemicals but not at all on certain other things, there is hell lot of transparency, but with certain limitations, Army is not telling how many Anti-Aircraft missiles would it buy this year as it would not like the other side to know that we are beefing up our air defence pending any surgical strikes or we'll not like to tell that we are cutting on certain xyz equipment as we hypothesized and war gamed that the enemy would not warrant the use that particular weapons system!

Moreover, in the last budget it happened for the first time in our history that the armed forces' budget was put under discussion and many details (which never had been leaked earlier) were discussed in the Parliament! Here goes your transparency theory!

As regards to the check and balances that the Army has is hell better than ALL of the remaining Pakistani institutions, and there is no doubt about that unless there is something already in the brain and someone is being haunted by intuitions!

i can give the details, if you ask

 

[Xeric]

The thread starter news relates to the decision taken in the month of June and now again the Army has decided to consume rations at a reduced scale for One Month, so that the balanced rations can be delivered to the dislocated people.


Go Army!