The whining of MoF on AFDP budgetary over-runs, is uncalled for (BR 16-04-08). Thanks to your scribe (and Almighty) we learn that, for once, the exchequer has incurred expenditure, where it can be fully justified.
It has not been long, since a great number of some of our senior and very expensively trained GD Pilots were forced to move over to passenger and cargo airlines, around the globe, to work as commercial pilots. The reason simply was the lack of growth in PAF, due to unavailability of a sufficient number of modern combat aircrafts and other paraphernalia.
Some day, a cost audit must be conducted on how much is spent on one suo moto action on dispensation of justice concerning matters, which fall under the jurisdiction of the lower courts. Or, what kind of monies are paid by the government to lawyers on the very frequent constitutional petitions filed with our superior courts.
Better still, compare the PAF expenditure with the hundreds of billion rupees of loans written off by the banks under SBP regulations. Also worth evaluating, is the expenditure on exercising the luxury of running a bi-cameral legislature, at the Federal level of government, besides the four Provincial Assemblies, just to give an impression to the world that we are functioning under a Whitehall-styled democratic environment.
If, even a much greater expenditure on PAF can enable it to ensure the safety of the nuclear assets of the only one of almost 60 (some of them very rich) Muslim countries of the world, so be it! The objective, at least, is noble enough to justify the means adopted to achieve it.
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