Yes, you did agree on the part of Zia era government's fault on letting the radicalization loose.
However, I mentioned it for an important reason - to highlight the favor of the Saudis. They stepped in to fill in the financial gap for educational infrastructure that was left wide open by the subsequent governments of Pakistan.
I am not contradicting myself. I am simply stating the fact that the lunch is over, but the money is yet to be paid, hence my mentioning of the significance of Saudi favors, esp when price of oil shot up in the early 70's.
I am not a very knowledgeable person, so I may not know what state official in KSA may have mentioned the Nuke Umbrella in positive light. Please do tell me about it, because as far as I know, the Saudis don't feel threatened by the Israelis. Syrians, Egyptians, Iranians, and Pakistanis do, but not the Saudis. The umbrella may be considered a favor, if it really does exist as an umbrella - I very much doubt that.
Doing business with Tehran will make Riyadh a villain, just as doing business with Riyadh made Tehran the villain in the past (you mentioned it yourself). When Iran is pressed to the hilt by the rest of the world, and is about to break down, Pakistan appears to be offering a respite. Why would it not make Pakistan a sore in Riyadh's eye?
The helps from the KSA... I mentioned them in my very first post in this thread replying to Webmaster. The oil subsidies, USA could not provide. It could provide money, but not oil. Educational infrastructure, you need even more money for that, and certainly it would rather be accepted from an Islamic country than from the US... just as weaponry coming to Pakistan from Israel was repainted to remove the Star of David.
Yes , I accept the faults and mistakes did by my people and leadership in the past culminating in the events of today ... Only through understand , can there be recovery ...
That is the problem , my friend ... The financial gap for the educational infrastructure wasn't that wide as you portray it to be , the Govt of Pakistan has made mistakes but this was a whole new thing ! Entire new interpretation of Islam was imported to develop a new generation of narrow minded , psychopathic killers and suicide bombers who were ready to enforce their version of the religion on everyone else ...
Sadly , you are mistaken ... The lunch is over - a long time ago and the money and favor were paid in full ... Nothing left to be paid ... The Soviet's are defeated and the Iran's influence in the region checked by Pakistan ...
Basically , there was a lot of money ( let say cart blanche ) provided by the Arabs specially KSA and Libya during the era Pakistan was busy fighting a war and developing nuclear weapons in return of some sort of protection against Israel ... No , they do not feel threatened now , they did feel it then ... The umbrella existed , it was a sort of open secret and widely reported in CIA declassified reports ...
Well , the kind of business we used to do with Riyadh is very much different than what we are trying to do with Iran now ... You are comparing apples and oranges here , mate ... Riyadh does business with our enemy , it shouldn't be a problem if we do the same that too merely importing Natural Gas to solve our energy crisis and by no chance not selling weapons to them or signing strategic defence partnerships ... Actually , the Arab Spring has more of a chance to hit KSA as Iran is to fall apart ... Pakistan is taking care of its own interests just like India and China are importing Oil from Tehran ...
Again , the lecture on the help from the KSA without any mention of the help from Pakistan ... Bravo !
so culture cooperation, food, and school buses post threat to pakistan.
read my OP's
Nah , I think you need to read the whole paragraph I posted and then answer the question why similar deals were not signed with Pakistan just like you want now for your interest in isolating Iran ?
What was the wisdom in going to our enemy to provide things which Islamabad could easily have provided ? Of course they do not pose a threat to us , but your defense deals and starting of a new strategic partnership sure does !
Its becoming boring ! Reading the same OP's of your's again and again so post anything new ...