is it right to fund pakistan to combat anti terror activity?

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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown visited Islamabad and gave 6 million pounds (about Rs 433 million) to Pakistan's government as a reward for the attacks on Mumbai, carried out by trained Pakistani militants. Not that Gordon Brown meant to encourage terrorism. Quite the contrary. The funds were given to Pakistan for counter-terrorism support. But in the equation of action and consequence, the Pakistan army would be happy to cash in another six million pounds. Every bit helps. But it is time for Western governments to ask whether the strategy of doling out dollars and pounds for terror has delivered the goods.
 
OK, lets look at it from a different perspective. If tomorrow UK announces that its going to withdraw all its forces from Afghanistan and says its got nothing to do with a country who is soooo impoverished that it cant even feed its people, let alone be a 'breeding ground' for terrorism and attacking UK from thousands of miles of distance, would Brown still has to bother to go and offer someone money (which you say they are cashing in). This is international politics my friend, the more you involve yourself in it, the more you suffer, and there will be no end unless you decide to be good to your own self.
 
I like the way you think. If a country is going to dole out money for a cause (no matter how fine), there should be an accountability as to whether that money is going to that cause.

Look at the Federal "bailouts" here in the US. Billions of dollars given to banks to bail out borrowers so they can keep their homes, but after the fact, when the banks are asked to account for that money, they say that they have no clue where it went, and that they don't follow it???!!!
 
No more money for Pakistan because its government, its military all the time misused these foreign add and spend money on terror training centers or, buying weapons and missiles from north Korea, giving nukes formula to north Korea.
Pakistan don't need any money but they need modern education, health system and little add for their poor people. they got lot of money every year from US but never help to kill or capture bin laden and never stop Taliban's, Pakistan is a place where worlds biggest terrorist farming happening. so western world shouldn't forgot before they give Pakistan any money or add.
 
Just as a thought experiment -- what if Gordon Brown had gone to announce that the International Monetary Fund is putting a stringent cap on defence spending in Pakistan? What if every terror attack having a link with Pakistan, caused the army's budget to be slashed and compensation handed to the attacked country? One suspects that the pro-active willingness of the army to take care of terror emanating from its soil would be greatly increased. After all, this is an institution that has shown it can protect its own interests fairly well.
 
He's all heart that Gordon, going from country to country handing out cash like confetti. Shame he never gives this place a second thought.
 
Being the 'frontline State' in the war on terror has netted the Pakistan army over $10 billion (Rs 500,000 million) in military assistance from the United States. The frontline of terror runs through the state of Pakistan -- for its army it has proven to be rich vein of gold. Most of the military assistance from the US has helped the Pakistan army arm itself to the teeth against its 'enemy State' India and helped tighten its dominant economic and coercive control over Pakistani civil society. Fighting terror is such a profitable business for the Pakistan army that one wonders what they would do if they actually caught the terrorists.
I think its high time people genuinely route out terrorism
 
Whether it is 'right' or 'wrong' depends on whether you are viewing the dilemma from an economic, a moral or a strategic perspective. I wont submit any thoughts on the moral issue, but from a strategic point of view- what other choice does your government have? Pakistan is the nexus, the most vital centre of organisation and distribution of Islamic terrorist activity in the modern world... From the perspective of the UK it cannot, absolutely cannot be ignored.

Before questioning whether your money is being rightly or wrongly used, consider an alternative course of action to take. And consider the social/political arena in Pakistan itself.. A nuclear standoff, assassinations of major political figures...

Any such alternative, when gauged against the current policy, will be the yardstick to measure against...
 
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