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Gulf countries do not need Pakistan, Pakistan needs them: Kuwaiti daily

Editorial says Pakistan's claim to protect sacred Islamic sites is 'political blackmail'

Web Desk April 13, 2015

Defence Minister Khawaja Asif is greeted on his arrival in Riyadh by his Saudi counterpart Prince Mohammad bin Salman al Saud. PHOTO: PID

A font page editorial in Kuwaiti paper Al Seyassah on Sunday criticised Pakistan for taking a neutral stance in the Yemen crisis, the UAE's Gulf News reported.

“The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries do not need Pakistan. In fact, Pakistan needs them in various areas,” the editor-in-chief of the paper Ahmad al Jarallah wrote. “The GCC can defend its security, particularly following the alliance with other countries such as Jordan and Egypt.”

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Pakistan had bowed to Iran, the editor went on to write, because it feared being defeated by the Iranian religious leadership.

“Pakistan needs to look carefully at the Iranian plots, especially its attempt to scare the world with its military capabilities.”

Accusing Pakistan of political blackmail, the editorial said that “the Pakistani stance that was adopted through the parliament’s decision to remain neutral has dropped the blackmail masks about protecting sacred Islamic sites and sharing a common destiny with Muslim countries.”

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“The slogans were merely political blackmailing tools and Pakistan thought it could use them to feed its crisis-hit economy,” al Jarallah wrote.

“There is no doubt that the Pakistani leadership has made a mistake by betting on Iran, and even its fear from Tehran is not grounded in reality since the Iranian claims about military and missile capabilities and the nuclear programme are not more than a game,” al Jarallah said.

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The criticism comes only days after UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Mohammad Gargash said that Pakistan’s decision to not join the Saudi-led coalition was “dangerous and unexpected”. Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan had responded to the UAE minister’s statements, terming them “unacceptable” and a “violation of all diplomatic norms”.

This story originally appeared in Gulf News

COMMENTS (58)

JB | 9 years ago | Reply Yeah, the Egyptians and Jordanians will come to defend you the way they did in '89 when Saddam decided to send his tanks to your lovely little town.

Tony Singh | 9 years ago | Reply @Gurion: Mohammad Bin Kasim was an Arab but was there Pakistan when he raided India. Get your history right. And check your ancestory. Probably one of those unfortunate natives (Indians) who had to convert to Islam just to save their skin. (BTW a right thing to do under the circumstances. Most of us would have done that)

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observer | 9 years ago | Reply So what happened to the UMMAH?

Saeeda Sanjam | 9 years ago | Reply Pakistn should be very poud of finally standing up to the Arabs after being at the receiving end where all the religious extremist have ben allowed to influence and bring their radiical views to create an atmosphhre of unstability while the Arab countries have used cheap labor from Pakistan t built their dream cities. Those who want to serve the Arabs are spineless I hope the milllions of Pakistanis know they are being used and once their services are not required they will be deported by their Arab others.

Jenny | 9 years ago | Reply @Pakistani: I love your comment!!

Lord of the Ring | 9 years ago | Reply Well they are right in a way. Pakistani corrupt ruling class led by NawaZardari does need Gulf safe havens for their loot money

Babbarsher Khan | 9 years ago | Reply Kaisa waqt aagaya! Even Kuwait, Kuwait thinks it can abuse us and proclaims shamelessly that GCC does not need Pakistan! Where is our khudmukhtari and ghairat?

Jag Nathan | 9 years ago | Reply @Muhammad Kashif: Delusional. Israel is not stupid to attack every Muslim country on the planet. The Jews are a lot smarter than what you credit them for. However, they may have designs for your Pakistan. And in that exercise, you can expect India to help them in those designs. An do not expect any help from your Arab friends when that happens.

Saif alvi | 9 years ago | Reply First of all Pakistani lot is a mixture of Pakhtuns, Persian, and Indian. Secondly gcc countries should draft their citizens into the army to fight their wars instead of these guys partying all night and sleeping all day. As for pakistan's neutral stand....good move. If gcc stops the financial aid then so what...lets buckle down, move to a lower gear. The country and its people will come out stronger.

OB | 9 years ago | Reply They´ll need Pakistan when they start losing the war in Yemen and then they´ll come and beg us for help. We should then raise the price of our services(defence services) that we will provide to them.

tauseef | 9 years ago | Reply This is arrogance which Arabs are famous for. How can you ask Pakistan for help and insult in the same breath. I think only Arabs can do this.

Hunter | 9 years ago | Reply Pakistan seems a rather failed state, if a puny Kuwait can humiliate it and show it the mirror. This however is the brutal truth. Pakistan indeed needs the GCC and UAE more than they need Pakistan. Fact is that Pakistan has shown that it is a slimy, two timing , unreliable and not-so-brotherly. It seems that China will soon be the only" brotherly" resort!

Viking Star | 9 years ago | Reply Yes its true. Pakistan needs gulf support, our economy greatly depends on remittances of over 3 million Pakistanis working in the gulf. Pakistan always get financial support from gulf each time we have a problem. Fuel supply from gulf is available at special terms. Unfortunately Pakistan did not did the right thing by refusing KSA to join coalition.

Parvez | 9 years ago | Reply When you have a lot of money you can talk nonsense ...... and get away with it.

Gurion | 9 years ago | Reply @Proletarian:

Pakistanis are Indo-Persian, I guess. Definitely not Arab

So, "the first Pakistani" Muhammed bin Kasim was an Indian or a Persian?!

Saif | 9 years ago | Reply @tariq: Why should they do that when there is no issue at all ...Baloochistan is a bigger issue !

Yasir | 9 years ago | Reply @wb: Muslims know their history and can proudly say they have lived with honor and defeated India every time they tried to adventure though it is being portrayed with different results at your side to save their face. Anyways, Pakistan know how to defend their land and can teach lesson anyone who challenged our dignity.

singh | 9 years ago | Reply They r very desperate to be arabs but unfortunately, they have indian DNA. This is the bitter truth they can not digest. Alas!@ajeet:

Doctor | 9 years ago | Reply Pakistan actually don't plunge in their fight explicitly but they are backing saudi forces, Its nawaz sharif's Govt. and He cannever go against saudi.Its all political game, nothing else soon you would witness PAKISTAN's influence over it.

Ashutosh | 9 years ago | Reply News paper articles are just opinion of one individual. This can not be concluded as majority opinion. . Not need to take it to your heart.

tariq | 9 years ago | Reply @whatever: We don't have desire to discuss India.I am just giving an example and this example is according to the scenario.

shashi | 9 years ago | Reply All this jingoistic, macho chest thumping by commentators is fine but meaningless bluster. It may give you a false sense of bravado but once the dice falls, you guys will smell the coffee. If the GCC becomes hostile to Pakistan, where exactly do you see financial stability coming from? China? USA ?.......C'mon guys, get real!!!!

bazooka babe | 9 years ago | Reply @Rajput: Right, more education needed: get to know your enemy, get to hate 'em--India

Anees A Khan | 9 years ago | Reply Arabs have no self respect. They only know how to throw their easy earned money.Only characterless nations behave in this mannet

whatever | 9 years ago | Reply @tariq: why to bring India in every conversation. the article is about pakistan and their masters, stop your obsession with India

Proletarian | 9 years ago | Reply @ajeet Pakistanis are Indo-Persian, I guess. Definitely not Arab

noor | 9 years ago | Reply @S Chaudhury: they need pakistan only in this current sitution while pakistan need them everyday. mind it

Baloch | 9 years ago | Reply @Dipak: Then how come they refused??

Badruddin | 9 years ago | Reply Does the Kuwaiti scribe know that Sultanate of Oman,one of the six members of the Gulf Cooperation Council GCC, too has refused to support the Saudi attack on Yemen? No criticism or even mute protest against this "stabbing in the back" of gulf solidarity? Or are Pakistanies sons of a lesser god?

Dipak | 9 years ago | Reply Pakistan will sell their families to get begging money.

wb | 9 years ago | Reply @Rumormonger: @bash gul: @Taz: @Pakistani: @Whiskey Khan: I have said this before, Muslims across the globe live in lies and delusions. "GCC can not defend a car park." Maybe true. But this also holds good for Pakistan. What has Pakistan defended? It has lost all wars with India and the only way it knows how to hold its country together is by committing multiple genocides. Right now Pakistan is committing two genocides: one in Balochistan and one in Fata. Muslims look at the history and see how Muslims ruled a vast swathe of land. They forget that these were horrible rulers and the only way they succeeded in wars was because their victory began with death, while the rest of the world celebrated life. They were barbarian on horse backs, while the rest of the world were civilized. Today, warcraft and statecraft have different tradecraft. And Muslims don't understand diddly squat.

Rajput | 9 years ago | Reply Whatever you guys say, the truth is you should return favors and then talk with this kind of attitude. Pakistan is loosing its Arab support (read AID) and US also. Iran is not such a great friends, India on the other hand is enemy. China will only use Pakistan. I don't see good days ahead for Pakistan at all. What were Pakistanis thinking? Welcome to International Politics and you know what, things will only get worse with rising population, receding resources and increasing radicalization. I think India just need to sit on the side lines and enjoy the show unless you completely change your education system and stop hating India.

Salman | 9 years ago | Reply The Arabs couldn't even take care of Israel in three wars they themselves initiated.No wonder they want a three dozen country coalition to take on Yemen.Thanks but I think we'll pass on that.

Gopeet | 9 years ago | Reply @ajeet: They are definitely not hindus. More Persians and Afghans. Except for Punjabis who are hindus that migrated into Punjab from Gujrat, Thar and other areas of Sindh.

bazooka babe | 9 years ago | Reply @Northern Lights: Well they most certainly ain't Indian if that's what you're implying by elimination of Persian and Arab, as the average Pakistani is much lighter than the average Indian !

khan | 9 years ago | Reply @sachin: wrong ont wo counts. 1. first it was 1.5 billion dollars less than 2% of our annual budget and less than 0.5% of gdp 2. second, the issue was taken up by the opposition in Parliament but nawaz govt assured that there were no strings attached. 3. third Compare to GCC aid to other countries like jordan and eygpt this is peanuts.e.g they pledged 25 billion dollars to eygpt for new city 4. lastly pakistan still sides with saudis on this issue diplomatically we just said no military

bazooka babe | 9 years ago | Reply @ajeet: Neither; just like the Urdu language, a mishmash of various peoples and races.

Rumormonger | 9 years ago | Reply Look who is talking: It was the Pakistani Air Force men who helped the Kuwaiti royal family escape at the beginning of Gulf war. I wonder why they cannot develop their own Army.

Ch. Allah Daad | 9 years ago | Reply Kuwaiti newspaper is absolutely right. Since creation of Pakistan and since present generation is born, we Pakistanis have been fed with the slogans of brotherhood, Ummah and other B.S. We got from them everything we wanted but when they needed us we turned our backs in a most disgraceful way. Kuwaitis already had found it hard way when our public and General Aslam Beg supported Saddam Hussain's brutality in Kuwait, forgetting that Saddam was not a friend of Pakistan. We are an ungrateful nation.

Farji | 9 years ago | Reply And thus speaks a country which has officially banned giving Visas to Pakistani nationals.

Ashraf | 9 years ago | Reply Did any Pakistani seriously think that the millions of barrels of free oil that the Saudis gave you during the 1998 sanctions and the recent $1.5 billion were all gifts?? Welcome to the real world and realpolitik !

Naeem Khan | 9 years ago | Reply It exposes their behavior towards Pakistanis, it was Saudi ambassador to Washington who has said that Saudis were not spectators but participant in Pakistan, which meant they have been interfering in Pakistan's internal affairs for decades and the Pakistani leadership let them. It is time that Pakistani leadership who has business interests in Saudi Arabia and gulf States should decide who's side they are on, are they working for the interests of the State of Pakistan or Arabs, forget about the religion because religion was not a cohesive force in the first place, so stop beating the drums being Moslem brothers etc. I will not take these pip squeak countries too seriously when they say belligerent things about Pakistan. It should be a lesson to Pakistani elite that we have no real friends in Arab countries and these Arabs are only interested in extracting pound of flesh from Pakistan and they think Pakistan is a subservient country for them. What amazes me that they say they don't need us then why are they so incensed by the decision of the Parliament to stay away from this sectarian conflict. It should also be clear to them that Pakistan is not siding with Iran but serving Pakistan's interests which is not to get involve when an Arab country Saudi Arabia has committed aggression in Yemen with out the consent of the member States of the UN. I am glad that their real face is being exposed to the nation of Pakistan.

amil | 9 years ago | Reply not pakistan but corrupt rulers need Gulf.

Northern Lights | 9 years ago | Reply @ajeet: Niether.. Persians are people of Iran. The term Iranian is derived from the Old Iranian ethnical adjective Aryana (a cognate of the Sanskrit word Arya). The name Iran means "(Land) of the Aryans". Not to mention the Persians do not physically resemble Pakistanis as they are very light-skinned people. The only true Persians that you can find in the entire subcontinent would be the Farsis (Zoroastrians) who migrated there ages ago. You could stretch it to include a few Afghans as being Persians but that's the limit. And as for them being Arabs..well obviously not.

sachin | 9 years ago | Reply @tariq: when did india accepted foreign aid in the name of "gift from friend" i have not seen a single comments from so called patriot Pakistani that we should not accept it but now you are crying. No country is stupid enough to give 3 billion dollars to any country with out any favour but your so called intellectual cant think above religion and muslim ummah. BTW why do you feel that in indian kashmir there are so many human right violations whereas pakistan is heaven, Do i need to mentioned human rights violations in balochistan, karachi, FATA? Baloch people are disappearing like anything but you can't see it..right. We also saw march of poor baloch on forced disappearance. How many separatist have you seen disappearing in indian kashmir?? They even enjoy liberty of roaming freely in any part of the india. Talk some sense before hatching conspiracy theories.

ajeet | 9 years ago | Reply Are Pakistanis Arab or Persians?

Ifti | 9 years ago | Reply Guys I am starting to love it.Our Arab brothers need to accept difference of opinion.Major concern is Economic impact.But one this is clear Pakistan is on right track and will rise IA

bash gul | 9 years ago | Reply The mouse that roared. The arrogance of the Kuwaitis provoked SM to occupy Kuwait and change its name to Kazami. Every expat in Kuwait knows how they are treated by the Kuwaitis. Its economic aparthied. A gulf emirate cannot even claim an island occupied by its neighbour.

Muhammad Kashif | 9 years ago | Reply Every Muslim country in this world and GCC or UAE states especially need Pakistan. Their rulers wake up in fear of Israel even in dreams. They know value of a Nuclear Pakistan. Kuwaiti newspapers only make headlines to sell. When it comes to Defence their newspapers will have no baloons to pump air.

bazooka babe | 9 years ago | Reply Pakistan should stand clear of these crypto-jews lording over the GCC and stand firm with the culturally superior Iran.

Mohammad Bilal | 9 years ago | Reply Where was saudia a.k.a arabia when sisi was killing innocents in egypt? Why did she not attacked sisi when egypt was being ruled by a highly mendate MURSI government and sisi burned it all? Now she first ask for pak forces, and then they say gulf don't need pakistan but pakistan needs gulf. Really?

Arshad | 9 years ago | Reply Kuwait news editorial is quite understandable. They cannot understand the position of a parliamentary democracy. In such a system representative opinion of the people is expressed while the editorial writer represents a system in which the opinion of an authoritarian ruler is expressed and acted upon regardless of the views and opinion of the people. This explains Gulf countries and Saudi Arab criminal silence on murder of Arabs in Libya, Palestine, Iraq, Tunisia, Egypt, Sudan, Syria etc. In all these countries the rulers sided with the interest of hegemonial countries whose only interest is oil & other resources of these countries.

tariq | 9 years ago | Reply GCC have you ever raised your voice against the human rights violation by Indian army in Kashmir.Have you ever backed Kashmiri's.Have you ever raised kashmir issue in UN?

Taz | 9 years ago | Reply Militarily Pakistan doesn't need Gulf states. Gulf states combined don't meet Pakistan's armed forces ability. Economically, is a different matter. Pakistani's don't owe much to Gulf States again for the jobs they provide to Pakistani citizens. Pakistani's work there because the Arab citizens are unable to meet the job requirements, be it in a professional capacity or manual labour...

S Chaudhury | 9 years ago | Reply Why they are requested Pak Army if they don't need Pakistan?

Whiskey Khan | 9 years ago | Reply Funny that Kuwait should be boasting about defending itself. The Kuwaities should review their History, If it weren't for the Coalition they would be cleaning the streets in Iraq.

Khan | 9 years ago | Reply Time proves, Saddam was right and whatever he did with you guys was right. Time for Naya and Independent Pakistan.

Pakistani | 9 years ago | Reply GCC can not defend a car park. We have seen how the Kuwaiti and their GCC friends so efficiently performed in the first Gulf war!

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