Meengla
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UAE and Dubai will remain a major international hub in the future too. Dubai is already way ahead of any other city in the Muslim world along with Istanbul. It's a major economic, business, aviation and trade hub along with numerous other cities in the GCC and will remain as such. We have heard such stories for decades. Dream on in short.
Is this even authentic news? Regardless of that then Pakistan is a major ally of the GCC and the Arab world and has much better relations than with the Mullah's of Iran. There is no comparison...
Despite this then it would not surprise me if Pakistan will ultimately send some 1000 troops as a sign of goodwill. That's all it ever was about to begin with.
Sensible post.
I am ashamed to see fellow Pakistanis exaggerating Gwadar--especially against Dubai. How deluded.
And, yes, Pakistan currently does have better relations with GCC but I don't think relations with Iran are all that bad either: Partly because of American sanctions and partly because of commercial interests Pakistan downplays its relations with Iran. But the fact is that the nonsense of Cha Bahar vs Gwadar or Pushtuns vs non Pashtuns in Afghanistan are non-sense. Pakistan and Iran are natural allies. Neighborhood is very important.
Good decision by Pak and Turkey to try to stay neutral and try to defuse the situation. Perhaps, because of their neutrality, they can better convince Iran and KSA to pull back from a disaster.
As to the UAE minister--well, we can't take one junior minister's statement too seriously at this point.