Seems to be the fastest and easiest thing to do. But it goes against our current paradigm of looking for perpetual growth, the government will never reverse this policy
To make things worse, the population will double in the coming decades, it's one of the fastest growing country in population. The government is too scared to put in place efficient 'family planning', Pakistan being one of the most religious country in the world.
Easy trick they could do to develop quicker and lesser the level of curruption: give women more rights and power. Europe is certainly not hindering them
France spended billions of euros to fight islamist groups in Mali at the demand of the government. No resources worth the billions France spended in Mali
France mostly lost money with colonisation. Sure, there were some people getting rich from it.
This is was more for the prestige than money.
I can't say the same for the UK, not having read much on the economic of colonisation for them.
Would you excuse Hitler with the same sentence?
You can switch islam with white supremacy, it's a similar supremacist ideology in search of a boogeyman. Protocol of Zion is still cited as a legitimate source in the middle east.