[Sirius]

Originally Posted by Chris

Meanwhile, in news from 12 months ago:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20265583

I assume at least some of those who will welcome this (old) news, will at least accept that in withdrawing aid, the UK has to give sufficient notice to those organisations, and Indian government departments, that may already have planned and budgeted for it, and that 2015 is a reasonable deadline for that.

Also, from the same article:

So it's not as if they're sitting back and letting us handle their entire welfare and development bill for them.

The Coalition took the correct decision last year.

Now we need to stop aid to another country that can afford a weapons program it does not need. Pakistan springs to mind !

Finally, on 28 May 1998, a few weeks after India's second nuclear test (Operation Shakti), Pakistan detonated five nuclear devices in the Ras Koh Hills in the Chagai district, Balochistan. This operation was named Chagai-I by Pakistan, the underground iron-steel tunnel having been long-constructed by provincial Martial Law Administrator General Rahimuddin Khan during the 1980s. The last test of Pakistan was conducted at the sandy Kharan Desert under a codename Chagai-II, also in Balochistan, on May 30, 1998. Pakistan's fissile material production takes place at Nilore, Kahuta, and Khushab/Jauharabad, where weapons-grade plutonium is made by the scientists. Pakistan thus became the 7th country in the world to successfully develop and test nuclear weapons.[12] There are also reports that the nuclear weapon technology and the weapon-grade enriched uranium was transferred to Pakistan by China.[13]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ay-NO-tax.html

The UK government has announced plans to end aid to India by 2015, but at the same time the amount of money going to its neighbour Pakistan is set to soar from £267 million now to £446 million in 2014/15, making it the biggest recipient of foreign aid.

At least they have good well funded nuclear weapons