Posted on 03/30/2014 7:01:20 AM PDT by SJackson
As US president Barack Obama looks to mend ties with Saudi Arabia in Riyadh today, the Saudis hope to shore up regional support. Their $1.5 billion gift has raised suspicions among Pakistanis.
Pakistan announced last week that it received a $1.5 billion grant from Saudi Arabia, which it termed a “friendly gift” and an “unconditional grant.”
Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have long had warm ties, but the no-strings-attached gift sparked immediate concern from Pakistani journalists, security experts, and opposition politicians, who question whether the grant is part of a behind-the-scenes deal for Pakistan to provide weapons for Syrian rebels.
“There are no free lunches in foreign diplomacy,” says Baqir Sajjad, a journalist at Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper, which has published articles questioning the deal.
The grant was confirmed at a briefing by Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s advisor on national security and foreign affairs, who also said that Saudi Arabia had agreed to purchase weapons from Pakistan.
The Pakistan government declined to specify what kind of weapons the Kingdom was looking for and denied that any arms purchased by Saudi Arabia will be sent to Syria. Pakistan, which has the sixth-largest army in the world, is known as a major arms importer, but it also sells fighter jets, anti-tank missiles, armored personal carriers, and small arms to Sri Lanka, Iraq, and Malaysia.
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I’ll take a dozen 5 meg nuke in the iron drop style and...let’s see, a baker’s dozen of the 3 meggers in the missile style. Wrap ‘em up and label them “cleaning supplies.”
Obama is killing the balance of Power in the Middle East
See Egypt's replacement of US aid.
SA wants the hijacked jet?
Or it’s payment for the hijacked jet?
“Why now?”
Why not? Our principal enemy is the Saudi-Pakistani axis. No surprise that they are collaborating. It’s just Obama’s weakness that makes it OK for them to do so openly.
Why now? What’s the take away lesson for Saudi, Taiwan, S Korea and Japan from Putins Crimean adventure? If you have nukes keep them, if you don’t get them. Because US promises mean exactly Zero....
The pakis could easily sell SA an a-bomb to help the Al Qaeda types in Syria in their war on Israel.
Yes, we fund the IMF. Any other contributors amount to zip.
Could it be the Wahhabi Nutjobs want the Atom Bomb, like the Pakistani Nutjobs? Could it be the Saudis see the handwriting on the wall, i.e., the Obamabastard will do even less than brain-dead Bush II did to defang the Iranians and soon THEY will be looking down the barrel of a Persian nuclear weapon???
Nahh. That makes too much sense.
The only weapons which Pakistan can produce and the United States doesn't already sell to the Saudis are nuclear.
Maybe Saudi Arabia knows where a certain Boeing Airliner actually ended up at?
Sri Lanka needs anti-tank missiles?
Looking to make a new hired gun friend? In preparation for what, dropping the Petro Dollar?
SJackson, many thanks for the post!
All y’all, ping to this one!
somebody’s making a big purchase?!
What you say has merit but this is all about IRAN.
That would not surprise me at all.
Down payment on some used 777’s?
Downpayment on a bomb.
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