Thats what you get for having a military budget consistently higher than your education and health budget combined for so many years.

Yeah .. it is also because we have a neighbour whose own more than half population of kids is malnourished but it has time and time again tried to blame Pakistan for it's own ill and amassed half a million troops on our border !

The moment we would be weak .. we would be attacked, hence, the defense budget.

The west's portrayal of pakistan has a lot to do with pakistan and pakistanis themselves. Can't blame the west for highlighting the role of such a terrorist, nuclear proliferation epicentre.

My understand is based on all what you have written + the ones which you have not written ..

Yes, Sukhoiman this is the true present ball and it would be up to Pakistan to break out of this shakle.

There is a major glimmer of home .. just look how today Pakistan as a country is treated in internationally .. 10 years back Pakistani getting Orions, F-16's, Cobras, spares, MLU's, vessels, Ericsson Erieye, international investment especially from Abu dhabi, was not even dreamt .. but today it is a reality !

We are on the road to economic and geographic stability ... and until a major fiasco happens .. there is no turning back.