Indian department likely to bag Oman border fencing deal

[Skull and Bones]

if that is the parameter then Omanis should look else where

Don't worry, BSF will train them rigorously on many fail safe methods under different circumstances.

 

[third eye]

CPWD ??

I hope they do a better job than what they do back home. We'll know soon enough once they get the contract and start looking for sub contractors.

 

[Sinnerman108]

Yemen will rise again along the Arabian Peninsula and Arab world. I am sure of this.

I know it has to, and personally I will be very very happy to see yemen back. I have great infatuation with that country and it's people.

I am just trying to tabulate the events and energy it would take to get yemen cruising again.

 

[ashok321]

Yemen has solid Al Qaida base and it is the favorite destination of drones now.

In May 2012, an al-Qaeda leader Fahd al-Quso, who was wanted for the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, was killed in a US drone strike. After month-long offensive, the Yemen army recaptured three al-Qaeda strongholds in the south – Shuqra, Zinjibar and Jaar. In September 2012, a car bomb attack in Sanaa killed 11 people, a day after a local al-Qaeda leader Said al-Shihri was reported killed in the south.

Yemenis are poor, most of them are fundamentalists, hence a rich nation like Oman does not want them crossing their land.

 

[notsuperstitious]

All the lip service to the brave motherland Yemen aside, fact is Yemen would have been a GCC country if they had oil and were rich.

Oman India relations are really good. I know their financial regulators are currently Indian regulators on secondment and helping them build their own institutions. Oman is a stunningly beautiful land too.

 

[BLACKEAGLE]

All the lip service to the brave motherland Yemen aside, fact is Yemen would have been a GCC country if they had oil and were rich.

Oman India relations are really good. I know their financial regulators are currently Indian regulators on secondment and helping them build their own institutions. Oman is a stunningly beautiful land too.

You think it's lip service because you are Indian, and you are known for that actually, but on the other side when we praise sth we do mean it. Oman is building the fence to prevent Qaeda infiltration to Oman from Yemen.

 

[Sinnerman108]

All the lip service to the brave motherland Yemen aside, fact is Yemen would have been a GCC country if they had oil and were rich.

Oman India relations are really good. I know their financial regulators are currently Indian regulators on secondment and helping them build their own institutions. Oman is a stunningly beautiful land too.

the way you are disrecpectful to Yemen only shows your lack of knowledge and character failure.

 

[notsuperstitious]

You think it's lip service because you are Indian, and you are known for that actually, but on the other side when we praise sth we do mean it. Oman is building the fence to prevent Qaeda infiltration to Oman from Yemen.

American drones flying over Yemen are taking off from Saudi and Yemen is not in GCC only because its poor.

These are called facts. Praise is indeed cheap.

@salman108 be coherent.

 

[al-Hasani]

First of all Yemenis may not be rich but we (I can say this as a half Yemeni) are open, friendly, loving and caring people with a ancient and proud history. Our history is one of the oldest in the world (Arabia Felix). Our poetry, cuisine, character, bravery, architecture, beauty and diversity of our land is something you need to experience yourself. We spread Islam to Southeast Asia to such countries as Indonesia (biggest Muslim nation on earth), Malaysia and many others. We were in India and Bangladesh as well. Not to mention the whole Eastern coast of Africa which we made Muslim as well. So many important Muslim people came from Yemen originally. We are traditionally a people of trade and business. To this very day. We traded with the whole world and were excellent sailors much alike our Omani brothers and sisters. Secondly our Arab Yemeni tribes can be found ALL over the Arab world. Also just look at the name given to us by ancient Romans and Greeks. Arabia Felix which means "Happy Arabia". Lastly one can just see what Prophet Muhammad (saws) himself said about Yemen and Yemenis if people ever were in doubt.

Also we are one of the few Arab countries who have kept our culture alive and architecture and not modernized too much and kept that "Arabian charm" as I call it alive. Of course much could be improved but only ignorants talk about Yemen as that Indian guy here does. I suggest you made a quick google search about Yemen. Much ignorance about the Arab world.

I know it has to, and personally I will be very very happy to see yemen back. I have great infatuation with that country and it's people.

I am just trying to tabulate the events and energy it would take to get yemen cruising again.

Thank you for the kind words.

 

[Arabian Legend]

What is the reason for a fence between Yemen and Oman? As a half Yemeni I find that strange considering that Omanis are basically Yemeni immigrants. Even the Sultan's family.

Al-Houthi kind of militia may pops up any time.

AJ Net News player

 

[notsuperstitious]

Is there a competition of stupidity here? A little application of brain will tell you guys I said nothing against yemen but I was pointing to how yemen being poor is treated by her neighbors.

Its easy to give free praise, but in many countries yemenis are treated like non-arabs and that means looked down upon. I've heard this from yemenis themselves.

Yemeni food from Hadramawt region is incredible. Nobody can cook better lamb.

 

[al-Hasani]

The problem in Yemen is that the the transition from dictatorship to the new president has not changed a whole lot. There are still fractions between the North and South. People are still very tribal and there are often clashes based on land. It is probably the most conservative and tribal society in the Arab world and Middle East for that matter. Then there is the qat problem unfortunately which seems like impossible to fight. Having said this I believe that the country will move forward. And even if it stays like this I would not complain since I love the current Yemen dearly. I have travelled across the country even in areas that are considered very dangerous. I was never in danger or felt like that. Maybe non-Arabs will have another opinion.

Also the Houthi's are indeed a problem but it is more a territorial conflict than anything else. The Shia in Yemen are Zaydi's and their beliefs are very close to Sunni Islam and the Shafi'i fiqh most Yemenis follow. The problem are outsiders trying to stir up trouble (Iran) and play on that religious divide (which is hardly there - I am honest here they are very different from Shia Twelvers in Iran, Iraq and Lebanon who are completely lost) and the North/South divide. Unfortunate but I do not believe that the Yemeni people will divide. They are both Yemenis after all.

 

[al-Hasani]

There are excellent relations with neighboring countries such as Oman and KSA. In fact we are the exact same people more or less.

Also I am not sure why you are lying. Yemenis treated as non-Arabs? Is this a joke? You do realize that Yemen is the homeland of most Arab tribes and probably where the Arabs originated/language came from once long ago? This must be some kind of joke. I could understand if this was said to some Berber, Kurd or what not from a Arabic country but this absurdity beats it all. Have you ever been to Yemen or Arab countries? Secondly those Yemenis might have been non-Arabic which means they could be from Somalia/East Africa since there are a few hundred thousand of such Yemenis. Even those who have lived there for a few generations or centuries even. Much like in Hejaz and other parts of KSA.

Secondly my reply was to that other Indian guy. Askok something.

 

[Arabian Legend]

^^ not to mention Al-qaeeda are camping over there as well

 

[al-Hasani]

Yes and they already control some of the very remote areas completely. But they have a very good point fighting the corrupt government but they could do without the killings of civilians. Both sides have failed in my opinion. Anyway Tarim and Sana'a where I have family from are both safe.

Also this is the worry of most Yemenis:

"About a year and a half ago, I journeyed deep into Yemen's eastern desert, the wild Wadi Doan, to visit the now-decrepit old mud mansion where Osama bin Laden's father was born and find out how significant a figure bin Laden still was to his countrymen. I'm not sure what I was expecting — an extremist block party? A cult of Osama? — but what I found was a small, impoverished village named al-Rubat, where global jihad was pretty low on the priority list. "You want to know our major problem?" an old man named Ali Abdullah, once a neighbor of bin Laden's father, asked me, his voice taut with frustration. "We don't have enough teachers, the date palms are sick, and there's too much trash in the streets. These are the things we think about here. Not Al Qaeda."

Typical Yemeni answer haha