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Our dear Gulf friends

This is not the first time Pakistan has been asked to share its military with Arab countries. Pakistani forces have trained Gulf soldiers and fighter pilots for decades. Pak Air Force, according to records, also helped in the ’67 Six Day War against Israel. And, of course, the House of Saud has had a long and happy history with the Pakistani military, especially since the days of the first Afghan war; when we funnelled jihadi volunteers from across the world into Afghanistan to fight those godless communists.

Over the years, the relationship with Riyadh became especially warm. Towards the end of the last decade, when America’s post 9/11 wars destroyed the Afghan and Iraqi regimes, and Iran began emerging as a more powerful force, there was talk in the international academia of Saudi Arabia once again turning to Pakistan for its military needs. And soon enough just such a situation arose. The Syrian civil war was fast degenerating, and the Saudis needed help to arm anti-government rebels, most of whom had by then gathered under the Jabhat al-Nusra umbrella. It is common knowledge that much of these fighters later became ISIS. Of course, they took their petro-dollar funded weapons with them.

And another need arose with Yemen. Although parliament struck down any chances of our military waltzing into Sana’a, it was quite clear for the longest time that the government was more than willing to oblige. But, importantly, while there is no denying the financial (and oil) help our Gulf friends give us, one must also question why they do not stand with Pakistan on some of its most serious positions. How many of these states would openly side with Pakistan on the Kashmir matter, for example, especially when an extremist government in Delhi is making talks more difficult with time. Pakistan has always held the Arab world’s problems close to its heart – especially the Palestinian matter – but the Arab world has not responded in kind. Perhaps, seeing how the Saudi question had Pakistanis running here and there, they will give our problems more attention also.

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    • All this says is Al Saud is good at one sided friendships as long as it benefits them in the end but not so much for mutual gain.
      Al Saud basically revealed their cards by saying they wanted to buy Pakistani army.
      Saudi Arabia needs to solve its own problems in its region not ask counties from outside spheres to fix a problem in its own backyard.
      Maybe the reason Yemenis joined Houthis in the revolution is because Yemen stayed poor and poverty ridden while under Al Saud umbrella, why not try without them? after all all gulf countries seem to be enjoying a comfortable lifestyle why is it Yemen is neglected?

        • Yet you took the time to reply. Pakistan made well to avoid joining a coalition that is responsible for the deaths of civilians and destruction of a country's infrastructure which doesn't come easy for a country as poor as Yemen.

          Kind of pitiful that u brand anyone that disagrees with you as an Iranian sympathizer, such is the behavior of some1 that cant engage in any form of discussion, aka a troll.

          • No.. You are here with a mission to defend the Ayotollahs of Tehran. Those who do, have sold their brains and would do whatever the Ayotollah say to them, i.e. Houthis. The Houthis are going to Aden like flies heading to fire. They are killed by the hundreds every day and they are still going. You are sort of similar. So there is really no reason in holding any sort of dialogue with you. Because if you took your time to read facts you would actually find your self on the wrong side of logic. However, you never took time to read facts about the Middle East conflict and are taking orders from the so called the "awaited Mahdi" whom you think is Khamenie. Your beliefs are so twisted and full of holes just like a swiss cheese. I apologise to any Swiss reading this for having compared Iranian beliefs for something that is actually edible.

          • Actually I'm not on any mission, those were your claims not mine. I have half a mind to say about Iran but that's a whole different topic that i wont delve into.
            My point of view comes from the fact that KSA took into its own hand the forming of a coalition that is too big and powerful for the job that attacked a sister state that more than 50% of its population live below the poverty line causing unspeakable destruction to food, cement, plastics, gas stations and airports not to mention specific firing at trucks carrying fuel and wheat and blockading the country thus preventing the delivery of food and medicine as well as pummeling its economy and deaths to innocent civilians in the hundreds.
            Notice i did not mention Iran in any of my posts nor the Houthis yet you cant fathom that others may disagree with, my main point is driven by humanitarian impulses.
            How could a sister country be willing to do that to its neighbor after touting the sisterhood of both nations for years.
            You do realize that hundreds if not thousands are flocking to the houthis because your coalition killed members of their own family? thus wanting revenge on you and the forces you support?
            Why is it that if i disagree with u then i have to be an Irani? crawl out of your hole and try to debate your points instead of succumbing to your phobias.

          • That is the same cry we hear from the Iranian Mullahs: "shame on Saudi for killing innocent children. Shame on Saudi for destroying infrastructure". Which is a false statement intended to illude western govs. Saudi is only hitting Houthi targets (the ones that Iranians are really crying about). Any reader here would only have to search what the supreme leader of Iran said yesterday and what you, Jerry, is saying now and he/she would find out that your statements are exactly similar. Moreover, Saudi has built more than 60% of the Yemen infrastructure. If anything is damaged, it will only be to stop Iranian puppets from occupying a Sunni majority country THAT IS LESS THAN 400KMS AWAY FROM MAKKAH. So Saudi would rebuild and add more to what has been destroyed. So stop crying about Yemenis and stop supporting Houthis. Why don't you come clean and state your real objectives here?

          • Its truly sad that u claim its Irani point of view when even the UN admitted the destruction of what i mentioned.
            Why would u say Saudi built 60% when its well documented that the core infrastructure of Yemen are the ones that were built by Russia and China 40-60 years ago including the highways. even their electricity generators are still the ones that they received from Italy from the old days everything is old and being patched because as u notice the country is dirt poor.
            List of confirmed targets of the Saudi coalition excluding Houthi and ex prez forces by UN:
            – Plastics, Cement, Food factories.
            – Electricity generators.
            – Gas cylinder station.
            – Airports and ports.
            – Refugee camps.
            – Civilian buildings. (in the hundereds)
            (Keep in mind that doesn't mean every single one of those was targeted just 1-3 of each)
            I can name every single one of them for you to Google as a start (Diary factory in Hodeidah) and (al-Mazraq refugee camp) the rest you can dig up on your own.

            blockading airports and ports thus killing the economy and not letting humanitarian aid such as Red Cross and Unicef reach the needed until the the world decried and the UN pressured them.

            Mind you i have been following the Yemeni ordeal since the start while i might not be and expert through and through i still read different news outlets to get different PoVs.
            I'm not trying to hassle you or waste your time by dumb shia sunni crap so don't drag me into the problems of your mindset.
            I really hope you would read up on more than one news outlet because in the end you owe it to yourself as a human being to be knowledgeable of your surroundings and the world you live in not just believing what you are told by face value.
            BTW none of those targets the UN mentioned ever came up on Saudi TV but where on every non KSA other news outlet.
            other outlets will also have pictures of the catastrophe with children and adults burned to a black crisp in the refugee camps as well as melted skin and 3rd degree burns. Please look them up if not for argument's sake then at least for yours.

  2. Being a Pakistani i am ashamed of this parliament (fake parliament who we never elected) saudis should learn a lesson from this decision of this fake pariliment and never support or give refuge to two faced people like Nawaz Sharif. We the people of pakistan will never abandon you. If our army has to listen to this mafia called govt but we are not obliged to listen to those who are ruling ys with fake votes. I support Suadi fully if saudi call us for jihad fe sabilillah we the people will say labaik

  3. Jerry you are not a muslim so you dont understand the sensitivities of muslims our two holiest sites are an arms lenght away from yemen. Being a pushtun pakistani and muslim this is our duty to protect our holy sites. But to our saudi brothers if you did not protect this enemy of islam called nawaz sharif in 1999 from being hanged till death by our military you would not have seen this day. Being brothers with saudis and arabs we will always be there for you just help us get rid of this fake govt and these gangsters because they dobt represent us they represent their business monopolies and now it seems like ayatollahs have paid them now they leaning towards them but we will hang them on the streets we dont care abiut this military and these fakes mps we care about our religiin and about our brotherhood

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