This paper endeavours to analyse how humanitarian aid is deviating from its objectives and principles day by day and thus making humanity subordinated to ‘other factors’. It first identifies the existing challenges that humanitarian aid has been facing for so long and then provides an analysis of those challenges to demonstrate how they subordinate humanity. For setting up the analytical framework, it employs the objectives and principles of humanitarian assistance accepted by the UN, the EU, the OECD, the ICRC and other leading organizations. Conducted in a qualitative manner, this research primarily relies on secondary data while primary data have also been used where required. In this connection, some other critical areas like politics, security, terrorism, religion and national interest have been connected and highlighted. Finally, on the basis of the findings, it concludes that in the operation and execution of humanitarian aid, the reason of humanity gets handicapped and compromised by the tentacles of politics, economy, terrorism, and religion.