Pakistanis pose a threat to Gulf communities, says Dubai security official

[El Sidd]

@El Sidd Not challenging anyone's knowledge here but just sharing my two cents.

There have been a series of tweets from the Police Chief and at least one other before him, against Pakistan and tweets are tweets but let's look a bit deeper.

Here is bit of context from AL-SHARQ news website translated via Google, as my Arabic is still very dodgy:


Dhahi Khalfan humiliates the Pakistanis .. the countries of the blockade (against Qatar) and Pakistan political and economic dispute is burning
Arab News Sunday, 01-04-2018 at 5:37 pm


Ahmed Ibrahim

To the extent that it provokes anger, Dhahi Khalfan often ridicules his comments and allegations, turning recently into a joke on Twitter after he was told that his grandfather was the biggest owner of a property in Doha !. His account ..

That the deputy head of police and public security in Dubai, back to be spearhead in a silent conflict between the UAE and Saudi Arabia on the one hand and Pakistan on the other ...

Where Dhahi Khalfan launched a violent campaign that was described as "racist incitement" against Pakistanis working in the UAE and the Gulf, through a series of inflammatory and circular tweets against them at his official account in "Twitter"

"We have seen Pakistanis do a great harm to our Gulf societies," Khalfan wrote in a tweet. "A call to citizens not to employ Pakistanis."

"Why are the Indians disciplined, while the sedition, criminality and smuggling in the Pakistani community are rampant," he said in another.

Khalfan does not stop stirring controversy, and he attacked in a tweet earlier in the Yemenis and said: "Sedtona .. Arabs .. Arabs .. Talatoa 60% of the left and Persians and Ahbash and Africans .. Best shut up ... Do not remember the Arabs."

This sharp attack by Dahi Khalfan of the Pakistanis was preceded by a lot of information indicating a rupture in Saudi-UAE and Pakistani relations. The US Wall Street Journal revealed that Saudi Arabia had abandoned Pakistan's support and succumbed to US pressure and voted to include Islamabad on a terrorism financing list. , Despite sending 1000 troops to the Kingdom to protect the system, as revealed by the site "Middle East A" British.

Reports indicate that Pakistan's mood has reached an unprecedented stage of discontent with Saudi Arabia's actions with Pakistan, which is evident by the Pakistani media's handling of this relationship, which has been beset by many contradictions ...

In the UAE, many Western newspapers reported the silent port conflict between the two countries, where the UAE sees the expansion of Gwadar port in Pakistan as a game changer in the region that would reshape the region's economic agenda.

Many analysts believe Pakistan's strategic port of Gwadar is a powerful threat to Dubai in the region. This controversial issue has recently caused a silent economic war between the UAE on the one hand and Pakistan on the other.

Are the slogans of Dahi Khalfan the beginning to break the silence and to declare the already heated dispute in the corridors of politics and economy?

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My own two cents:
I think that basically, the souring of relations with Arab countries in general is due to the following:

1. Yemen Conflict - (SPCI No 1) : Sharif's backtracking from returning the favour of their exile in Saudi Arabia as well as Saudi support of Pak in Past. (RS and Army didn't)
2. Qatar Blockade - (SPCI No 2) : Sharif's continued business interests in Qatar further middle-fingured Saudia-UAE etc. (the blockade countries)
3. Gwadar Port - UAE Vs Pak: Obvious one to one business conflict between the two countries and UAE taking advantage of point 1&2.

UAE is simply using the ( SPCI No1&2) Sharifs Personal Conflict of Interest issues with Saudis that have hampered SAUDI - PAK relations to do as much lobbying against Pakistan as required to harm potentially substantial Saudi and Arab investment and developing business interests in Gwadar. Business is business.

So it's not just about some Arabs waking up one day and starting agitation against Pakistan due to Yemen or Gwadar but also our beloved Sharif's Business in Qatar and PCI that is being considered backstabbing by Saudis and in particular UAE has Yemen, Qatar and Gwadar politics to play with too.

UAE has every right to do what her interests put her in decision making.

The systematic pressure put on Pakistan is not some personsal clash of unwritten unspoken promises.

Dubai fights hard each day and have nightmares of beirut just like Doha and Bahrain.

Pakistan and Pakistanis respect the cordial 'brotherly' relations the two countries enjoy.

The amount of dough in the game is mind boggling. Only a fair just person can distribute this fairly or else the region is nose diving towards war.

 

[MBT 3000]

crazy

 

[waz]

This to be expected and the UAE and Saudi are not any Pakistani ally in any shape or form now. They royally (pun intended) dumped Pakistan into an economic quagmire, knowing full well that the common Pakistani will be hurt. It's only Turkey and China that can be considered friends.

@El Sidd
The US Wall Street Journal revealed that Saudi Arabia had abandoned Pakistan's support and succumbed to US pressure and voted to include Islamabad on a terrorism financing list. , Despite sending 1000 troops to the Kingdom to protect the system, as revealed by the site "Middle East A" British.

"Succumbed" lol I wouldn't use that word. The article is painting them as some sort of victim. It was a case of backslapping by the US delegation and smiles, the GCC vote literally smiled back and voted for the motion. With allies like these enemies are not needed.
Anyway like someone said, I think it was @Ocean, the common folk sadly don't make the policies. The royals and their military men are in charge, and Pakistan has been marked off their Eid present list.

 

[SQ8]

Judging everyone by india is a recipe for isolation

Please come up with some better anecdote instead of wasting my time on pitiful quotes.

 

[Dalit]

Certainly a wake up call for Bakistanis. Time to wake up and become Pakistanis.

Let's not kid ourselves. Ever since CPEC and the refusal to join the Yemen war we have another agitator in the shape of UAE. These Hindu worshippers aren't a friend of Pakistan.

 

[Saif-ud-Din Qutuz]

la hawla wala quwwata illa billahil aliyyil azim!! End days are approaching. These Arabs would turn their back to the religion Islam. They've already started behaving like sons of abu jahil.

 

[Ocean]

This to be expected and the UAE and Saudi are not any Pakistani ally in any shape or form now. They royally (pun intended) dumped Pakistan into an economic quagmire, knowing full well that the common Pakistani will be hurt. It's only Turkey and China that can be considered friends.



"Succumbed" lol I wouldn't use that word. The article is painting them as some sort of victim. It was a case of backslapping by the US delegation and smiles, the GCC vote literally smiled back and voted for the motion. With allies like these enemies are not needed.
Anyway like someone said, I think it was @Ocean, the common folk sadly don't make the policies. The royals and their military men are in charge, and Pakistan has been marked off their Eid present list.

Yes cause i didnt know he is a gov official until i saw a picture shared by desert fighter. I recall seeing that picture of a dubai police chief on internet giving statement about resolving hamas leader mehmoods assisaniation. Mehmood was killed by mossad while he was on a stay in dubai https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Mahmoud_Al-Mabhouh

This police chief is a senior gov official and is very close to dubai ruler sheikh rashid. I even recall seeing a pic of him on some news website where he was seated next to dubai ruler and there was a guy standing before the two reading poems in praise of them or the dubai president/ruler.

Just like in pakistan it happens that when nawaz wants to speak negative on army or judiciary he would push or use one of his ministers or senior larty workers to issue statements this one scenario also looks similar this guy is on a very senior post and very close to the states heads , so well rest u can guess urself. And then the policy of kicking out pakistanis is already in works. Had i read this mans tweets earlier every little doubt about rumors of pakistanis getting axed as new state policy would have been removed form my mind. Nonetheless, now no doubts are left.

Btw dont worry their entourages visit pakistan almost every month and whilst he claims in one of his tweets that our postive view of pakistanis is damaging gulf countries, they dont hold themselves back from coming to same pakistan to hunt for birds.

Translate please?

I think in first tweet he said, our (positive) view of pakistanis is a huge harm to the gulf region communities.

In second he said " blocking the recruitment of pakistani workers has become a national need"

 

[Hyperion]

A-Rab's who?

 

[Taimoor Khan]

And these guys send their troops to participate in 23rd March parade!

There is something seriously going wrong in UAE establishment, first it was the d!ckhead Anwar Gargash and now this toad face. Whoever is the ruler of UAE needs to act and act fast against these individuals who are hell bend on destroying Pak-UAE relations. These diatribes coming from UAE are now remembered, not forgotten and forgiven.

 

[Shane]

This to be expected and the UAE and Saudi are not any Pakistani ally in any shape or form now. They royally (pun intended) dumped Pakistan into an economic quagmire, knowing full well that the common Pakistani will be hurt. It's only Turkey and China that can be considered friends.



"Succumbed" lol I wouldn't use that word. The article is painting them as some sort of victim. It was a case of backslapping by the US delegation and smiles, the GCC vote literally smiled back and voted for the motion. With allies like these enemies are not needed.
Anyway like someone said, I think it was @Ocean, the common folk sadly don't make the policies. The royals and their military men are in charge, and Pakistan has been marked off their Eid present list.

You are right about Turkey and China. Pakistan's establishment and also - in between - Pakistan's fledgling democracies have had a wonderfully close relationship with Arab Monarchies for decades and that's a fact too.

All things considered, it is still pertinent that we engage Saudi Arabia and Arab investors in general, to invest in gwadar and CPEC.

That's the best way to handle UAE, to carve out a better understanding and build mutual interests with other Arab countries and investors to strangle India's influence starting to creep up on us. It's all about taking care of our own interests.

It's easy to blame others I guess but a serious introspection and foreign policy review is required.

Instead of finding fault with other countries we should be pondering on our failing foreign relations disaster of a Foreign policy - or a complete lack of it - that's why Army has stepped in at that level too and been trying to fill those foreign relation holes created due to our own fault and dismal policies.

It shall be equally futile to employ a reverse gear and further aggravate traditionally close allies in Arab monarchies at the cost of better relations with an even more mercurial and unreliable Iran - specially when India is already in bed with Iran in Chabahar and making inroads, literally, at an unprecedented level. Again, due to our own foreign policy of the past, whereas India is active on all fronts now with both sides in the region.

Instead of a complete reversal of foreign policy and losing the rest of middle east to India, we can improve upon and fine tune our foreign policy of the past to make it more business oriented - again referring to it - by attracting Arab investors towards CPEC - with emphasis on China as a lure for the reluctant.

Pakistani Generals have enjoyed close relationships with Saudi Rulers and other monarchs. That's something to build on as an official/ unofficial on going support of their security concerns.

The other option is do nothing much and fashionably curse Arab monarchies and call them names like we are doing now and hand middle east on a platter to India as we already have done with Iran a long time ago.

In all the chaos and conflicts of interests with our Arab friends, Pakistan's relations with Turkey and China are on the right track but we also need to ask ourselves as to why it is so?

I think we should be largely thankful to both Turkey and China for their support. China sees its regional, strategic and business interests in Pakistan but Turkey is special as their friendship does resemble true brotherhood.

It's about time that we start playing our part to our potential in defining and strengthening our business, strategic and regional friendships too.

The amount of dough in the game is mind boggling. Only a fair just person can distribute this fairly or else the region is nose diving towards war.

I think there is plenty to go around if we are able to attract more and more investors and then the market forces ensure a fair share as they get involved. Look at how India is trying to play things - by getting at the source of investment...That's the game right there.

 

[WebMaster]

Pull out and let Iran whip him.

 

[ashley.1965]

You are right about Turkey and China. Pakistan's establishment and also - in between - Pakistan's fledgling democracies have had a wonderfully close relationship with Arab Monarchies for decades and that's a fact too.

All things considered, it is still pertinent that we engage Saudi Arabia and Arab investors in general, to invest in gwadar and CPEC.

That's the best way to handle UAE, to carve out a better understanding and build mutual interests with other Arab countries and investors to strangle India's influence starting to creep up on us. It's all about taking care of our own interests.

It's easy to blame others I guess but a serious introspection and foreign policy review is required.

Thank you for your balanced post. Yes, Pakistan's foreign policy has been tactically challenged for some time now. And particularly so where the Arabs are concerned.

Instead of finding fault with other countries we should be pondering on our failing foreign relations disaster of a Foreign policy - or a complete lack of it - that's why Army has stepped in at that level too and been trying to fill those foreign relation holes created due to our own fault and dismal policies.

It shall be equally futile to employ a reverse gear and further aggravate traditionally close allies in Arab monarchies at the cost of better relations with an even more mercurial and unreliable Iran - specially when India is already in bed with Iran in Chabahar and making inroads, literally, at an unprecedented level. Again, due to our own foreign policy of the past, whereas India is active on all fronts now with both sides in the region.

The rot is very deep indeed. And our wretched enemies have been exploiting it to the maximum. It has been a significant foreign policy objective of the Indians in particular to create rifts between Pakistan and its traditional Arab allies (and this includes the non-GCC states). They have adopted a clear two-pronged strategy of outreach to the Arabs, coupled with anti-Arab propaganda in Pakistan's sell-out media. A more recent endeavor has been an increase in anti-Pakistan articles in English-language media within the Arab world itself (think "Gulf News" in the UAE). It should not surprise anyone if it is someday discovered that social media accounts purporting to belong to Gulf dignitaries are in fact operated by Indian staffers.

You can see the results of this strategy clearly. Anti-Arab agitprop has become part of Pakistan's print and broadcast media over the last few years that would have been unthinkable a decade ago. And this impacts people's perception of the Arabs, especially those who may not have lived in the Gulf or other Arab countries. There are folks on this very forum who use racist language against the Arabs that is no different to what one would expect from white supremacists.

As for Iran, there are signs that the Iranians may be realizing that their "friendship" with Israel's main ally in the region is counter-productive. For the first time in decades, Pakistan and Iran are now resuming military co-operation.

Instead of a complete reversal of foreign policy and losing the rest of middle east to India, we can improve upon and fine tune our foreign policy of the past to make it more business oriented - again referring to it - by attracting Arab investors towards CPEC - with emphasis on China as a lure for the reluctant.

Pakistani Generals have enjoyed close relationships with Saudi Rulers and other monarchs. That's something to build on as an official/ unofficial on going support of their security concerns.

The other option is do nothing much and fashionably curse Arab monarchies and call them names like we are doing now and hand middle east on a platter to India as we already have done with Iran a long time ago.

Again, spot on. While the Indians have not yet succeeded in displacing Pakistan as reliable military allies of the Arabs, they are certainly succeeding at exploiting their economic strength to win them over at Pakistan's expense.

In all the chaos and conflicts of interests with our Arab friends, Pakistan's relations with Turkey and China are on the right track but we also need to ask ourselves as to why it is so?

I think we should be largely thankful to both Turkey and China for their support. China sees its regional, strategic and business interests in Pakistan but Turkey is special as their friendship does resemble true brotherhood.

It's about time that we start playing our part to our potential in defining and strengthening our business, strategic and regional friendships too.

Whilst Pakistan's relations with Turkey and China are exemplary, they cannot and should not be a substitute for its relations with the Arabs. The Arab world is Pakistan's natural hinterland, geographically, historically, and in culture and faith as well.

Look at how India is trying to play things - by getting at the source of investment...That's the game right there.

The Indian game is not just economical, but also has a significant social-engineering angle for long-term gain. They are playing divide and rule as effectively as their Western masters, and fools on our side are letting them win.

 

[Divergent]

I don’t understand this

 

[Big Tank]

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A top Emirati security official, known for being outspoken on wide-ranging issues, took to Twitter to denounce Pakistanis, accusing them of being a "dangerous threat to Gulf societies".

In his recent diatribe on April 1, Lt Gen Dhahi Khalfan, who is the head of general security of Dubai, wrote in Arabic: "The Pakistanis pose a serious threat to the Gulf communities for the drugs they bring with them to our countries."



The tweet, followed by a series of similar attacks targeting Pakistanis, came in the backdrop of a drug racket being busted in Dubai. The tweet was also carrying a photo of three alleged Pakistani smugglers, along with the drugs apparently recovered from them.

No government data is readily available to show that Pakistani citizens have been involved in certain crimes in UAE more than immigrants belonging to other countries.

Khalfan resorted to generalising, however, asking his fellow citizens "not to employ Pakistanis". The security official termed it a "national duty to stop hiring Pakistanis”.





In continuation of his diatribe, the official went on to make sweeping comparisons between Pakistanis and their arch rival Indians.

“Why are the Indians disciplined while disruption, crime, and smuggling are prevalent in the Pakistani community?” he wrote, according to uaeviral.com.



Dragging people from Bangladesh into the verbal assault, Khalfan suggested that Pakistanis should be subjected to increased inspection, similar to what Bangladeshis had to face "because of the criminal tendencies".



“We became strict with the Bengalis because of the criminal tendencies they have shown. Pakistanis must be placed under an increased level of inspection.”

 

[Jaanbaz]

I would rather be a drug smuggler then a desert slave keeping rapist.