You are of course correct that in this particular instance RAF and others should help Pakistan get out of this crisis, however the countries selling PAF fighters should wonder how come they end up coming to the rescue (and footing the bill) when "aid to the civil power" rather than "knock the crap out of the other side" is required.
Ah well it probably goes something like this.....we need lots of helicopters and as we have/will be very nice in letting you use our airspace/airfields/ports etc to kick crap out of our neighbours and we spent lots of money with you last year buying the "wonderfighter XL" and you know next year our main battle tanks will be due for replacement and they could be built in a marginal constituancy in your country you will lend us some choppers please.
Of course in the UK we should have enough support lift to cover our own taskings plus some level of contingency. But we dont. Which means we end up robbing Peter to pay Paul. Equipment and people get worn out and quit or break, machines we thought would see us nicely through till their replacement on peacetime taskings are being flogged to bits on an op tempo that is bordering on the bonkers.
Blame each other for not paying enough tax, or blame the govt for spending your tax on other things or the MOD for squandering their bit of the budget or the chiefs of staff for preferring teeth elements over force multipliers. In short blame everyone apart from the poor gits who are at the pointy end and those who are shortly going back to the pointy end but cant do any training cos their helicopters are 4000 miles away.
Rant mode off.