Pakistan, May 17 -- Pakistan's health crisis is no longer confined to the wards of government hospitals. It has become a measure of how much state capacity has been outsourced, neglected or quietly abandoned. The latest warning by an Islamabad-based thinktank Tabadlab on shrinking foreign assistance should therefore be read with some alarm. It says what governments have avoided saying for years: many of the functions that keep the health programmes alive are financed, designed or technically sustained by outsiders. Diagnostics, vaccines, medicines, disease surveillance, procurement systems and specialist staffing have been carried by donor money in ways ordinary citizens rarely see until the support begins to disappear. USAID's suspension...