apr 15th, 2011 CE
മേടം ൨, കൊല്ലവര്ഷം ൧൧൮൬, വിഷു, പൂരം നക്ഷത്രം
aiding pak means cutting india down to size.
and hamara jaichands collaborate furiously in this activity.
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From: sanjeev nayyar
Date: Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 8:52 AM
Subject: Noble Intent Forlorn Hope by Premen Addy
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April 15, 2011 8:52:58 AM
Premen Addy
British Prime Minister David Cameron's generosity towards Pakistan is entirely misplaced. He would do well to remember that fine words butter no parsnips.
British Prime Minister David Cameron was at his emollient best during his recent visit to Pakistan. He understood Pakistan's present difficulties with terrorism and insurgency; he regretted past misunderstandings and wished to wipe the slate clean and renew Britain's partnership with a strategic ally. Finally, the visitor left behind an education aid package of £650 million for his hosts, signifying noble intent and forlorn hope.
At a time of British austerity and spending cuts, this was generosity indeed. No London street vendor scattering confetti in celebration of the royal nuptials could have done more. Christina Lamb, writing in The Sunday Times, broke ranks with a pliant media: "When David Cameron announced £650 million in education for Pakistan last week, I guess the same thought occurred to many British people as it did to me: Why are we doing this? While we are slashing our social services and making our children pay hefty university fees, why should we be giving all this money to a country that has reduced its education budget to 1.5 per cent of GDP while spending several times as much on defence? A country where only 1.7 million of a population of 180 million pay tax? A country that is stepping up its production of nuclear weapons so much that its arsenal will soon outnumber Britain's? ... As someone who has spent as much time in Pakistan as in Britain over the past 24 years, I feel particularly conflicted, as I have long argued we should be investing in education there."
Ms Lamb, author of an acclaimed book on Pakistan, provided a tour d'horizon of the country: Whatever liberalism there ever was is now as extinct as the Dodo. Western educational aid in the past had been diverted to the military and arms acquisitions, the educational gap filled by Saudi-funded madarsas — training ground of terrorists and the Taliban; the Pakistani middle classes including the legal fraternity were fervent supporters of Salman Taseer's assassin, Mumtaz Qadri, not the Punjab Governor who had questioned the imposition of the country's blasphemy laws on innocent victims, not their legality, nor their moral purpose. During two weeks travelling in Pakistan last month, I feel the situation has gone far beyond anything that a long-term strategy of building schools and training teachers can hope to restrain."
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From: sanjeev nayyar
Date: Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 8:52 AM
Subject: Noble Intent Forlorn Hope by Premen Addy
To:
A country ie cutting on cost big time gives an education package of pounds 650 million to Pakistan. The Brits logic beats me. Perhaps following the U.S. who run huge deficits but continue to fund countries across the world, a clear case of living beyond your means.
sanjeev
Noble intent, forlorn hopeApril 15, 2011 8:52:58 AM
Premen Addy
British Prime Minister David Cameron's generosity towards Pakistan is entirely misplaced. He would do well to remember that fine words butter no parsnips.
British Prime Minister David Cameron was at his emollient best during his recent visit to Pakistan. He understood Pakistan's present difficulties with terrorism and insurgency; he regretted past misunderstandings and wished to wipe the slate clean and renew Britain's partnership with a strategic ally. Finally, the visitor left behind an education aid package of £650 million for his hosts, signifying noble intent and forlorn hope.
At a time of British austerity and spending cuts, this was generosity indeed. No London street vendor scattering confetti in celebration of the royal nuptials could have done more. Christina Lamb, writing in The Sunday Times, broke ranks with a pliant media: "When David Cameron announced £650 million in education for Pakistan last week, I guess the same thought occurred to many British people as it did to me: Why are we doing this? While we are slashing our social services and making our children pay hefty university fees, why should we be giving all this money to a country that has reduced its education budget to 1.5 per cent of GDP while spending several times as much on defence? A country where only 1.7 million of a population of 180 million pay tax? A country that is stepping up its production of nuclear weapons so much that its arsenal will soon outnumber Britain's? ... As someone who has spent as much time in Pakistan as in Britain over the past 24 years, I feel particularly conflicted, as I have long argued we should be investing in education there."
Ms Lamb, author of an acclaimed book on Pakistan, provided a tour d'horizon of the country: Whatever liberalism there ever was is now as extinct as the Dodo. Western educational aid in the past had been diverted to the military and arms acquisitions, the educational gap filled by Saudi-funded madarsas — training ground of terrorists and the Taliban; the Pakistani middle classes including the legal fraternity were fervent supporters of Salman Taseer's assassin, Mumtaz Qadri, not the Punjab Governor who had questioned the imposition of the country's blasphemy laws on innocent victims, not their legality, nor their moral purpose. During two weeks travelling in Pakistan last month, I feel the situation has gone far beyond anything that a long-term strategy of building schools and training teachers can hope to restrain."
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