Re: Breaking News: Paramilitary Police clash with Lal Mosque idiots!
well, still be extremely grateful to the Saudis. They have extended ample generosity to the government and people of Pakistan. But, such is the unthankful nature of many Pakistanis that seldom they let go the chance of spewing their hatred. That's OK doesn't make any difference..back to the topic..
I thought I clarified it in my second post on the Saudi topic but let me rephrase again. Perhaps my generalization was too aggressive in my previous post so i am going to quality my comment.
Saudis have helped Pakistan a lot at both official and unofficial levels through financial as well as political means. There generous aid over the past few decades is well documented and visible, but I am also grateful to them for providing us political support in times of need. Saudis are an influential nation in teh world because of their oil reserves, and along with China, they have bailed us out on numerous occasion on world stage.
Having said that, there is a big problem of bigotry and extremism within Saudi Arabia. There aid for militancy that started with the time of Soviet invasion, took an unofficial and uncontrolled form later on. The aid we got from them, with the noble motives of establishing madarrasah to take care of poor kids in rural area, became the lifeline of militant movement in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Don't know which happened first, but the "Islamists" hijacked the marassah institutions and are now surviving on the money sent in by their financier in Saudi Arabia, who play their part in establishing an 'Islamic state" by sending money all over to support the militant causes. Unfortunately, this unsupervised flow of money is sponsoring all kinds of ills in our trial regions, and I have great resentment against the Saudis for allowing this to happen.
I hope this was a large enough qualification of my stance and my gratitude for their help in previuos decades is well documented.