Actually I am not one of those Pakistanis who gets annoyed at Arab countries for choosing to maintain excellent relations with India. At the end of the day it is all about your own interest. What I am saying is that Pakistanis are generally raised to believe in the concept of Muslim solidarity and having each others back. That is why Pakistan has not recognized Israel. What they dont realize is that Arabs dont support Palestinians out of Islamic solidarity but out of Arab brotherhood. This is why there is next to no support for Kashmir in the Arab world (I know this since I am married to a Palestinian and my wife freely admits forget Kashmiri she didnt even know what a Pakistani was till she met me lol). Unlike the GCC, the Levant has a minute Pakistani presence at best.
With regards to Abu Mazen, I am laughing at him awarding the President of India the highest award Palestinians can give to foreign dignitaries based on the fact that the said recipient of this award is also the largest financial supporter of the Israeli war machine (in terms of weapons imported). The irony is just amazing!
I would not call relations that only resolve around economy and expat presence and hardly any strategic alliance (for now at least and if I am wrong please prove me otherwise) to be excellent. Excellent and strategic relations is what most Arab countries have with China. Or the West (although this is a complicated matter). Or even Pakistan but just on a smaller scale for now due to the difference in size and population and thus economy between Pakistan and India and the Pakistani government (s) - plural due to successive ones, shooting themselves more often than not when it comes to creating the right climate for foreign investors. That's something I know that my Pakistani friends talk about openly and lament openly.
That concept is a Muslim concept that Pakistanis are not alone with. Arabs too are taught this from early school years (I was taught this too and even by my parents who emphasizes that while the current world is a jungle, you should stick closest to those that you are most familiar with and share the most with in that jungle and here Muslims were one of those groups, compared to say Papuans or Mexicans).
Pakistan has not recognized Israel due to the love of Palestinians or Arabs (or lack thereof) but due to Pakistani religious sentients and due to the religious importance of that land and its holy sites. If that was not the case the average Pakistani would know/care as little (IMO) about this conflict as you do when it comes to the Darfur conflict.
That's wrong. There are many Arabs who focus on Islamic solitary rather than ethnic solidarity. Many in fact. Arabs are still "tribal" people to some extent and as in every tribal society (Pashtuns and Baloch can recognize this - I believe that you are a Punjabi so maybe less here) the biggest disagreements can often occur among each other.
That's like saying that religion (Islam) is not a element of the glue that holds such a diverse nation like Pakistan stick together.
That is due to Pakistan (IMO) doing a bad job (media wise, politically) at highlighting what is going on. Most Arabs and Muslim are not familiar with day to day Indian-Pakistani political feuds, do not speak Hindi or Urdu or other regional languages, do not travel much to Pakistan or India (at least not that part of the region) and Pakistani media have almost no presence in Arabic language and the ones that have a presence in English, are for a limited community (Pakistanis). For instance I first learned about the existence of the Pakistani newspaper (Dawn) here on PDF. Otherwise I would likely never have discovered it. And reading some articles from that newspaper, it seems that it is more pro-India and anti-Arab and anti-Pakistan than it is pro-Pakistan.
Well, we are laughing at him too. Most Palestinians are doing the same (I am sure that you are aware of this or at least should be with a wife from Palestine). Just like I am laughing at some of our policies and thinking that US is to be trusted given its track record in the region.
BTW what I tried to get across here on this thread, is that I believe that the reason why Pakistanis are higgling Arabs here (when you could easily highlight Chinese, Iranians, Turks and ALL other majority Muslim peoples and nations since they all have relations with India) is that you have too high expectations of Arabs that might be religiously or historically motivated. Many Pakistanis seem not to understand (either) that Arabs have many problems of our own and that our leaderships (which is a general trend in the Muslim world, including Pakistan) is far from representative (always). Thus this creates a division between ruler and ruled. For instance when the ruler of Abu Dhabi is saying some words in Hindi that I do not even know fully, it makes it appear like all 2 million Emiraits are clued to the screen trying to (at the same time) pronounce the words with a grin on their face.
Absolutely, its what Pakistani's need to understand
Our hatred for hindus is total
Too many Pakistanis have drunk the ummah cool aid expecting that the arabs would naturally stand with us, when our real allies have emerged as China (atheist nation) and Turkey (same religion but bonds based on history, culture etc)
As Pakistan becomes more self reliant we dont expect nations to forgo economic interest in the name of possible future conflict between Pakistan and India
So Pakistanis who still believe in ummah (dwindling number) need to understand the nature of arabs to understand that our interests and emnity with india comes first and doing anything for arabs is a waste
Yemen was just the start
Arabs are no different from any other Muslims, including Arab states, but Arabs are still your closest allies economically and on other fronts and you cannot run away from that.
With all due respect, if you are familiar with your own history, you will know that Arabs and our ancestors share more and have a much older common history than with Turkic peoples (the real ones in Central Asia) as well as our Turkish Anatolian friends. So not sure why you are highlighting history or culture as if that was not the case with Arab-Pakistani relations (even much more so in fact). Just saying. Let's be honest from a geographic, historical, economic and demographic viewpoint, there is no chance of Pakistani-Arab relations suddenly changing dramatically or becoming outright hostile, so you should not worry about Arabs here anymore than other Muslims. Although (of late) it is easier to make character assassinations of Arabs.