DD:
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Funding on request of Pakistan was pre-9/11 thing and working against these groups post 9/11.
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It's interesting that when you talk of Saudi funding to Pakistani madressahs, you add "on request of Pakistan". Why being so apologetic? It looks like you yourself understand that such a funding was not exactly the right thing to do for Saudi, and therefore you try to absolve them by adding "on request of Pakistan".
First of all, Saudi were not funding "on request of Pakistan". Pakistan never formally requested Saudi and its people to send money so that Pakistan could establish the madressahs. At least I am not aware of any such request. Let me see the reference if you know of this request from Pakistan.
Secondly, I said it earlier that Saudi funding to madressahs has been a GLOBAL PHENOMENON. That is, this funding is NOT specific to Pakistan alone. If it were specific to Pakistan ONLY THEN you could have argued that it was "on the request of Pakistan". Fact is that Saudi and its people fund such madressahs without asking for permission from host country.
But I do understand why you added "on request of Pakistan" there. Saudis were funding madressahs with full consent, information, and willingness of Pakistan governments and agencies, even though no formal request had been made to them. These people in Pakistan were nurtured by "Ameerul Momineen" Zia, under whose "Islamic" military dictatorship the seeds of current destruction of Pakistan were sowed. These people were from "jihadic" (read "fasadic") ISI of that time, and also included populist leaders like Nawaz Sharif, besides religio- political organizations like Qazi Hussain, Fazlur Rehman, Samiul Haq, etc.
So much for the discussion on "On Request of Pakistan" thing. Now let's see another important conclusion of yours.
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Funding on request of Pakistan was pre-9/11 thing and working against these groups post 9/11.
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I am amazed at how casually you said above, without realizing the impact of it.
As you said above, Saudi funding was being sent to madressahs without any checks before 9/11. So the event which made them think again was actually related to AMERICA. Both Saudis AND Pakistani jihadic leaders had NO concern about what this aid was doing to Pakistani (and Afghan) society. Both Saudis and Pakistani jihadi elements KNEW FULLY that some of these madressahs had training camps established in Afghanistan and Pakistan, where people were trained in killings of minorities in Pakistan. This was 90's, when these madressah-trained fasadis used to bomb shi'i mosques almost daily, and used to kill some high-profile shi'i person every other day.
Both Saudis and Pakistani jihadi govt elements KNEW all these killings were being done by madressahs which were getting financed by Saudi and other Middle Eastern countries, but they did NOTHING to prevent it.
Ordinary Pakistanis at that time were immune from this madressah-orchestrated violence against minorities. Therefore nobody raised much concern about teachings and trainings of violence in the name of Islam by these madressahs. At that time, we Pakistanis forgot that this gennie of extremism was causing intolerance to grow exponentially in society. Minority communities were being DESTROYED by this Saudi-backed jihadi menace, but neither Saudis nor Pakistani jihadi ISI did anything to stop these mass murderers in the name of religion.
Moreover, these Saudi-backed madressahs, declared jihad on their fellow Muslims in Afghanistan. There they were responsible for killings of thousands of innocent Afghan people. And since these jihadis were being backed by Saudi-financed-madressahs and Pakistani jihadi ISI, therefore Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, along with UAE, were the ONLY countries in the world that recognized Taliban government in Afghanistan. So we see that Saudia did not recognize Taliban "as a favor to Pakistan", like you have suggested.
All this changed after 9/11. Saudi- and Pakistani-backed madressah govt of Taliban also had developed relationship with international extremist forces. So after 9/11, Saudis and Pakistani jihadi ISI and army found themselves confronting Amreeka-bahadur. That is more than any of them could take. So after 9/11 there was no option left for Pakistani ISI and army except to make a U-turn in its support to Talibanic fasadis and go with "with us" option given by Bush. Similarly, Saudi financing of internal extremist madressahs was also exposed by Amreeka-bahadur. Thus they had no option left but to stop at least five such charities.
Saudi closure of these charities was a clear sign that Saudis could not deny their hands in financing extremist jihadism around the world, including Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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The post 9/11, is totally different, they themselves realized that lot of this money was channeled to extremist and it was stopped altogether.
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How naive of Saudis that they realized ONLY after 9/11 through Amreekis what their money was doing in Pakistan and Afghanista. How can you believe that they did not know it themselves?
And how can you be sure that it was stopped ALTOGETHER? They only stopped charities which were of concern to America, but their financing of madressahs elsewhere would not have stopped because it was of no concern to Americans.