Well, around 75% of Pakistans budget is consumed by its armed forces that supports the huge infrastructure, expensive hard ware and pay/allowances for the personnel.
So what does the figure of 75% have to do with the salaries of army personnel?!?! You've even admitted this money goes to buy fighter aircraft, multi billion dollar equipment? Why on earth should Generals be taxed on the basis of the TOTAL MILITARY BUDGET? Duh.
Armed forces personnel are only able to pay tax,once they are paid their salary.
Right.
So when you write that who is actually paying the tax in Pakistan, the answer is: Each and Every Average Pakistani.
Now this is where you lose me. You make no sense. You talk about army personnel paying taxes, and then suddenly make the jump to talking about every Pakistani paying taxes!
Pakistan's tax payers form a very small percentage of the population. Only around 1-2% of people in Pakistan pay taxes. When most civilians are exempted from taxes, why should the Generals not be that earn a similar wage?
Are you trying to say that if politicians havent been brought forward for tax evasion then why should Army personnel be brought forward????? Good excuse!!!!!
No, I'm saying that the insane fixation with Army corruption at the expense of proven civilian government corruption on a scale hundreds of times worse than the Army, is purely agenda based, and ignores the very logical principle of choosing the lesser of two evils. You don't punish a petty thief by hanging him, and a rapist by 20 lashes, do you? Same you don't report on the less corrupt people, while ignoring the much more corrupt people, unless you have an agenda. In which case, you're opinion is worth as much as camel poo in a desert.
And if NS and BB's tax evasion has been proved (as you have mentioned) , then why the hell these two stooges are roaming free? Why isnt Govt charging them and putting them behind bars instead of making secrets deals with them? And the dilemma is if Govt doesnt nab them now, most probably one of these tax evaders will be our next PM very soon.
Cheers to the happy future.
This is perhaps the only part of your post where you make some sense, and might have a point. The Government should charge them, lock them away and throw away the key. However, they cannot. Because the two Beavis's have a following in Pakistan, and have some influence. When someone steals half the economy of a 60 billion one, they have a lot of money, and a lot of influence to go with it. No doubts they use it wisely bribing their supporters to turn up, vote for them and so on. All it take is a few rupees for one of them to buy a vote. It is better for Musharraf to defeat them in the elections, which he will do. That way noone can argue, he is not the most popular leader in Pakistan currently, even though his opponents are going to try and buy votes no doubts, or make some ludcrous promises like, "all the educated youth will be given jobs"
