Pakistan - The future ?

[Jackdaws]

To call the Arab world a "block" is a major stretch. They are a bunch of kingdoms run by nomads who have struck it rich because they have oil. If they don't have oil, they are pi$$ poor like Mauritania Last I checked, slavery was still legal there. Or look at Yemen or Libya. Additionally, they are often at each others' throats. Joining such a block would be like committing harakiri.

Your future lies with South Asia / India. It is a no-brainer. Yes, you are a separate nation state. But you have a cultural affinity with South Asia which you don't with the other regions. Your students can come here for higher education. You can speak Hindi/Urdu. The economy of South Asia relies on ingenuity and enterprise - not oil. If you see Pakistani students abroad - they hang out with other South Asians - not with Arabs or Central Asians. There is a natural pull because of the shared civilizational heritage. Countries like Sweden and Denmark went to war a few hundred years ago - now you can just cross the bridge. Economic integration is more likely to happen between states which have cultural commonalities. If you try to create an artificial state like the EU - we can all see the Brexit fiasco currently on in the UK.

 

[911]

Blocks will surely form in future.

 

[barbarosa]

China Iran Pakistan Afghanistan and Russia will a great partner in the near future. These neighbor countries will be the new EU of the world.

 

[Pakistanisage]

Most Central Asian Nations are a lot closer to and identify with TURKEY rather than IRAN ( with the exception of Tajikistan which is Persian Speaking Nation, most other Central Republics are Turkic). Pakistan would fit in well with those Central Asian Countries and Turkey, instead.

As most Turks remind us that Iranians are unreliable people and tend to be back-stabbers ( as we have seen with their alliance with India ). Most Pakistanis find Turkish people a lot more reliable.

 

[hussain0216]

Our aim should be to form alliances with all groups, blocks and nations, whether it be arabs, Asians or others

The only country we should have enmity with is India

 

[Hell hound]

Most Central Asian Nations are a lot closer to and identify with TURKEY rather than IRAN ( with the exception of Tajikistan which is Persian Speaking Nation, most other Central Republics are Turkic). Pakistan would fit in well with those Central Asian Countries and Turkey, instead.

As most Turks remind us that Iranians are unreliable people and tend to be back-stabbers ( as we have seen with their alliance with India ). Most Pakistanis find Turkish people a lot more reliable.

sir but we need general public interaction as much we need economic relation to build stronger ties with central asia.as of now it is bare minimum.what can we do to improve people to people interaction with them is their any steps being taken by our government?
i agree with you on iran(government not people) they tend to back stab and are sometime are suicidal in nature so we should keep nature of our relation to strictly business.

 

[ito]

Culturally and linguistically India and Pakistan may enjoy many similarities, but given the issues between India and Pakistan, the future of Pakistan doesn't lie with India/South Asia.

From the remaining two it no brainier that Pakistan is more comfortable and enjoys better relations with Arab world than with Central Asia. So I think the future of Pakistan lies with Arab world

 

[farhan_9909]

The future lies with central asia,china and arab world and sorry we cant trust iran for strategic relations though we should push for more trade with iran

 

[barbarosa]

Culturally and linguistically India and Pakistan may enjoy many similarities, but given the issues between India and Pakistan, the future of Pakistan doesn't lie with India/South Asia.

From the remaining two it no brainier that Pakistan is more comfortable and enjoys better relations with Arab world than with Central Asia. So I think the future of Pakistan lies with Arab world

India will not give chance to Pakistan for the trade with south Asia,in the present India terminated Pak SL jf17 treaty.

 

[ito]

India will not give chance to Pakistan for the trade with south Asia,in the present India terminated Pak SL jf17 treaty.

Now military trade is different from normal trade.

 

[barbarosa]

Now military trade is different from normal trade.

Sir jf17 in the SL is not the strength of south Asia?

 

[Kompromat]

Strategically towards Central Asia
Economically towards Middle East

Our days of flirting with SAARC are over.

@Icarus @Hyperion @balixd @Atanz @Xeric

 

[ito]

Sir jf17 in the SL is not the strength of south Asia?

Now, you are talking as if you don't know anything. India would not want any Chinese military equipment in South Asia, hence India is offering MIGs to SL

 

[Talwar e Pakistan]

What the hell has the Central Asian states done for us? Our future lies in the Arab States - they've always been there for us.

 

[911]

Once Orya Maqbool Jan said:
"Hum Arab hai, humme Arab nhi hai ; hum Hind nhi hai, humme Hind hai"
"We are Arabs, but there is no(culturally) Arab within us; We are not Indian, but Indian is within us(culturally)"