TY - JOUR AU - Mahmood, Dr Tahir AU - Sarwar, Shahab PY - 2021/12/31 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - MILITARY EXPENDITURES AND SOCIAL EXPENDITURES IN PAKISTAN: MYTHS AND REALITIES JF - NDU Journal JA - NDUJ VL - 35 IS - SE - Articles DO - UR - https://ndujournal.ndu.edu.pk/site/article/view/87 SP - 112-125 AB - <p align="justify">Welfare versus warfare is an ongoing discourse between conservatives favouring<br>military expenditures and the others advocating for the welfare spending. In Pakistan,<br>this debate is highly politicised as some people portray that defence budget takes the<br>bulk of federal budget and it is draining the social budget of Pakistan. However, such<br>arguments are mostly vague and sweeping due to inexact inferences derived from<br>wrong hypothesis and inaccurate or incomplete data. This paper tackles these myths<br>logically and scientifically using appropriate statistical tools with particular emphasis<br>on the Riff off theory. The study is based on a scrupulous investigation of the realities<br>of military expenditures of selected countries through a Time Series Analysis to<br>ascertain the magnitude of the total military expenditure of Pakistan as compared to<br>other countries. It clarifies the statistical relationship between the social and military<br>budgets with the help of Regression Analysis and Correlation Coefficient. The study<br>reveals many interesting veracities by busting various myths.</p> ER -