248 bilion or 258 bilion both figures are immaterial and I hate comparing our economy with Pakistan where the only criterion meriting comparison is the geographical proximity and political compulsion of sharing a common boundary.
And economic growth is only one of the many factors in play which governs funding for respective armed forces and we know that these factors are diverse for both countries.
The spending pattern are different in between both armies.
Even knowing that most of casualties against taliban are due to IED's the funds allocated for procuring MRAP's are low.Pakistan army and paramilitary do continue to patrol the insurgency hit areas in soft skinned Toyota 4*4.
Even when there was a chance of USA offloading few hundred of MRAPs for Pakistani army, your govt. is antagonizing them and any adverse action will close that possibility.
Many such projects are now taken up
Such as deal for unknown numbers of Vp3 mrap is signed with china last year.
than there is Burraq MRAP recently developed..is yet to enter into service with the army
than the mohafiz III(with rcws)
than as per inside info as well as usmanansari(defencenews.com)
there is one yet another 15tons mrap in development with the help of turkey.which is still in development
about GDP.one must compare the per capita income as well.india's GDP is only because of massive labour force and ofcourse which in return is due to population.per capita difference between pak and india is still under 100-200 dollars.while in the past we had a higher per capita than india from 1947 to 2008.
so its a game sometime you are up and sometimes us