I can only speak for myself, and I honestly do not think you are against this, that or our armed forces. But, I do think your arguments and reasons for your arguments are illogical and lack basic common sense, my intention is not to be rude but you are not making any sense.
You keep repeating yourself with a wish list, but you are ignoring the ground realities and making claims that have no basis in reality.
Most of the points you have raised have no link to the defence budget, those actions can be done and should be done without affecting our defence requirements.
Rest of your points are totally irrelevant to the defence budget argument.
Please brother, get a grip on yourself.
Since you have really asked. My point originally started from here: Increase of 11.85% proposed in
Defence Budget of Pakistan. Increase of 1.3% in
#Health Budget is also proposed. 220 million Pakistanis vs 8 lakh Pakistan Army.
...which is Rs 1.29 Trillion for Defence spending out of Rs 7.29 Trillion total budget. What this means is: 17.7% defence money out of total expenditures which Pakistanis only see in public eye.
Now Because Calculating defence budget as percentage of the GDP indicates its burden on the national economy. Pakistan’s defence spending as a percentage of the GDP is the highest in the region: with
Chinese budget as share of GDP being 1.9 per cent,
India 2.4 per cent, and
Iran 2.3 per cent.
So although its just 2.85% from GDP but in current circumstances of Health, Education and Unemployment from total 2020 budget Armed Forces takes the largest share of 17.7% out of total proposed budget of next year.
Now I am going to tell the most interesting part which is the figures given for defence spending do not give a full picture of the amount actually being spent on defence.
One major exclusion is the apportionment of pensions for the retired troops as mentioned above. The government would be paying Rs369 billion under this head next year – a 12.8 per cent increase over the previous year. Moreover, major acquisitions by the armed forces are not reflected in the budget and so is the case with the nuclear programme. So nothing is shown in the 1.29 trillion budget for ISI, new helicopter purchases or Nuclear programme, since you asked I am telling you this. Why hidden???
Now I am going to tell you another trick that happened which this thread I went against, why criticism of defence budget is justified is:
The civil works component is set to grow by 26.14 per cent to reach Rs155.5 billion.
Two major civil works projects currently being undertaken by the military are fencing of borders with Afghanistan and Iran and construction of border posts...though Army related but not included in defence spending. Why???
The Army would this year be getting Rs613 billion, PAF Rs274 billion, Navy Rs 140 billion, and inter-services establishment Rs262 billion. Fine.
Now Look at this why people are crying about: "The federal government has proposed allocation of only Rs 64 billion for the Higher Education Commission as the ruling PTI is unveiling its second annual budget 2020-21 amid coronavirus pandemic.And It has only allocated Rs 4.5 billion under the Public Development for ongoing and new schemes under taken by the Federal Education and Professional Training ministry". Is that a joke?
And then the government coversup and says it is providing maximum relief to public, my foot. Why Lie so much like a parrot...just say it is providing maximum relief to Armed Forces. Call spade a spade.
That's all the best sense l can make.
