India’s defence spending

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The South Asian region is among the most volatile regions in the world. Power struggle, terrorism, arms race, border tensions, regional instability and security problems are among some of the glaring issues. With the presence of two emerging powers in the region, China and India, it is only inevitable that a race for superiority in the region has begun. One particular aspect of this tussle is the increased spending on defence, something that concerns other regional players as well.

India has just announced a hike of 17 percent in its defence budget for fiscal year 2012-13, taking it to the $ 40 billion mark. This noticeable hike, which follows a 12 percent hike in the last fiscal year, is in no way something that will sit well with other countries, particularly the ones which have a history with India. Pakistan, for example, has its legitimate concerns on this arms building spree of the Indians. The already lopsided balance of power will further tilt towards New Delhi forcing Islamabad to enhance its own funding on defence. A region where more than 400 million people live in poverty, more than half of the world’s poor, these hikes will do anything but ameliorate the miserable conditions for them, and will additionally put a strain on the national budgets of states.

The Indian defence pundits would be quick to justify this hike, so would ours be correspondingly, on the basis of their ageing military hardware and an increasing threat from China’s strong technological build-up. Even though latest steps by both the neighbouring countries seem to thaw off the tensions created after the Mumbai incident, this trend of one-upping the other will certainly end up in no one’s benefit. After all, economies of both the countries can sustain only so much of a cut without any return. Better sense should prevail and only as much focus should be given to these toys for the boys as is necessary. But deciding what is necessary should be a prerogative of the politicians. Their consideration is usually more cognisant of what a country needs than that of the khakis is.

7 COMMENTS

  1. india for your kind information is one of the highest economies its better not to compare it with pakistan..

  2. India does not rely on foriegn Aid like Pakistan. We earn the money we want to spend on our defence unlike pakistan who gets aid for its people but spends it on chinese weapons.

  3. pakistan is smaller country than india thats why its budget is also low than india pakistan budget is 2090 billion only554 billoin of budget is taking by pakistan military only 18 person of budget and if u not compare pakistan miltary budget with indian so this budget is enough for pakistan see the israel miltary which had a very small budget only 64 billion budget but usa increase their budget by giving many billion dollars thats why their budget is up from 64 to 200+ pakistan military only taking 18 personand saying that they are taking 70 person every year 13 person of budget taken by prime minister of pakistan asif ali zardari which had already taken and again taking 13 person of pakistan budget if this 13 person of budget will take my pak military than it had a great improve in his budget if imran khan wil be the next prime minister of pakistan than u see after 4 to 5 years pakistan military will gain a great improve in his budget and now nuclear program pakistan is the only country in the world which had only few reactors but pakistan is working very fast on his nuclear program said by govt of pakistan and usa pakistan govt didnt showing his numbers of nuclear missiles but america getting information frm zardari and telling that pakistan have 90 to 110 nuclear missiles but only pakistan china and usa know the actual numbers this numbers 90 to 110 missiles numbers are correct numbers but this were announced on 2009 when kushab reactor was developing and now the end of 2012 kushab has started making missiles two missiles are also developed previous month shaheen5 which had a capacity of 4500+ km and taimur 1 which had 7500+ capacity and us is saying till 2020 pakistan have a plenty of missiles i knw the that pak have how many numbers of missiles becoz pak nuclear scientist aq khan and samar mubarak had a interview on tv and they said the actual numbers and that telecast was only fr the peoples in pakistan india have 80 to 100 missiles and paksiatn have many more than it untill 2020 when u knw the actual numbers of missiles i challenge u will became shock and cant imagine in ur dreams its not only fr india its for israel india and america

  4. Dekh yaar abdullah. Ye nuclear bomb to ek kaafi hai poore pakistan k liye. Humaare paas hain 80. Tujhe tension lene ki zaroorat nahi hai. Aaraam kar. India aagey badhna chaahta hai. Ye pakistan humaare liye zaroori topic nahi hai. We wont attack u. Dont be afraid. Hum logo ko bahot saare doosre kaam hain. We want to concentrate on things like space missions and China. We will attack Pakistan only as a retaliation. Dont worry.

    • yes you r right but Pakistan is with china to attack india jointly , because Pakistan cannot attack single so they r taking a help of china , but we dont take anyones help to protect our peple we will fight till death and die honourly , we will this battle also ,jai hind.

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