We are not offending them. We are telling them that we will do what is in our best interest from now on, without taking any pressure/blackmails from them.
KSA rejected and then resisted to call OIC meet over Kashmir. Pakistan was blackmailed with oil stoppage and return of labour over PM IK's attendance of conference in Kuala Lumpur. Now Pakistan has drawn the line, no more blackmails irrespective of what favours were given in past. It seems the message has also been given military to military. Favours have been both ways.
Sure, but all of this can be done with tact, especially in the responses in this thread that I am reading I think that this is lacking. As for the Kuala Lumpur debacle, I think that was just a screw up on our part, yes the Saudis strong armed us, they don’t want us close to certain people.
But we have to decide in that situation as tactfully as possible what is more important to us; politely declining an event with allies who pay lip service to Kashmir cause and (credit where it is due...) also help diplomatically on mutual terms, or going against the wishes of a genuine benefactor that has put their money where their mouth is on multiple occasions, and often times it has saved our skin, or allowed us to pursue some of our ambitions? In most cases in our history, it didn’t matter who was in power, army or civvy, they all knew where their bread was buttered and typically chose closeness with the latter.
KL was a slip up imo, either we shouldn’t committed at all, if the government eventually judged that the cost wasn’t worth it as it had, or we might have stuck to our guns and not caused embarrassment by pulling out. Anyway I digress.
Also, on the OIC comments I agree with you here, seen in that context our message being conveyed is justified. But I feel that we have far less leverage on them than they have on us, this is the sad reality with almost all of our international relations of import.
