Five Billion Dollars, Unknown Terms: Pakistan Has Never Told Its Citizens What the Hangor Submarines Actually Cost (opens in new tab)

In any democracy, the larger the public expenditure, the stronger the expectation of public accountability. Roads, railways, hospitals, and welfare programmes are routinely subjected to scrutiny, audits, and parliamentary questioning. Yet when it comes to Pakistan’s largest-ever naval procurement, the Hangor-class submarine programme, basic questions about cost remain unanswered, not because the information does not […] The post appeared first on <a href="