Re: Pakistan Army - We’re proud of you!
Over the past few days i have been thinking about it, why had the civilian institutions failed so badly and army had to do the majority of relief work.
Without playing the blame game i thin there are certain points that i want to make:
1- Army undoubtedly is the most disciplined or the only disciplined instituion in Pakistan and perhaps is the "least" corrupt institution.
2- This disciplined institution also comes at a price, a huge price. The amount of money that we spend on these 500,000 individuals is perhaps 30% of our budget, now compare it to the budget spent on Police/hospitals/nurses/doctors/civil defence workers. Its no wonder that they failed on the occasion.
3- Its the best oppurtunity available to military to score points to a public which had over the last decade got fed up with the army, and they are not going to let go this oppurtunity.
4- If the civilians had been made incharge of releif operations, they would do a much worse job than what the army is doing right now, especially the type of civilians in Musharraf's lap like, Faisal Saleh, Sheikh Rasheed etc.