Saudi Arabia's Prince Salman visits India

[Ruag]

Prince Salman to begin four-day India visit today

RIYADH:
Riyadh Gov. Prince Salman will start a four-day visit to India on Sunday, the Indian Embassy announced on Saturday.

“Prince Salman’s visit to India is extremely important both on account of his stature in the Saudi government and the fact that the visit is taking place so soon after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s recent visit to the Kingdom,” Indian Ambassador Talmiz Ahmad told Arab News.

He stressed that the governor, who is leading a large delegation, is carrying a message of friendship and goodwill to his country.

Prince Salman is scheduled to meet President Prathiba Patil at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi. During his talks with senior government officials, the governor will pick up on many of the points that have emerged as important elements in Saudi-India relations in the political and economic fields.

Prince Salman will also be conferred an honorary doctorate by Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi. Discussions between the two countries will be attended by Faisal bin Tarad, Saudi ambassador in New Delhi.

“The visit will give an opportunity to our leaders to discuss the regional scenario, particularly our concerns relating to extremism and terrorism emanating from parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan that threaten the region as a whole,” said Ahmad.

Prince Salman is also expected to discuss further economic cooperation with business leaders in Mumbai. A large Indian business delegation was in the Kingdom accompanying Singh during his visit to Riyadh in February.

“Prince Salman’s engagement with them will actually follow up where we ended during the prime minister’s visit and he will be able to address many of the issues our businesspersons may raise with him,” the ambassador noted.

Prince Salman is visiting India at the invitation of Vice President of India Hamid Ansari, a former Indian ambassador to the Kingdom. “The vice president is fully familiar with the Kingdom and its political, social and cultural ethos,” Ahmad said.

The prince is also expected to visit the city of Agra where he will have an opportunity to see the Taj Mahal, one of the wonders of the world.

“Besides political and economic connectivity, his visit will promote our cultural and educational ties because he will be getting an honorary doctorate from one of India’s most prestigious universities, Jamia Millia Islamia,” the envoy said.

The prince’s social engagements will include a visit to the Saudi school in New Delhi and he is scheduled to attend a reception accorded in his honor by Ambassador Tarad.

Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah visited India in 2006 to participate in its Republic Day celebrations as guest of honor.

Economic relations between the two countries are growing. India imports about 30 percent of its oil needs from the Kingdom. Bilateral trade reached almost $25 billion in 2008-09. Indian investments in the Kingdom have risen considerably to $2 billion covering over 500 joint ventures.

Prince Salman to begin four-day India visit today - Arab News

Nice to see that Saudi-India ties are growing.

 

[Ingis]

So one feudal monarchy visits another feudal monarchy. What's news?

The news is that "one feudal monarchy" (whatever that means) didn't visit a communist leader democratically elected by 1.3 billion Han Chinese people.

A Chinese communist just called Indian government a "feudal monarchy". I think that has the biggest news of the day.

 

[below_freezing]

is it wrong? india has all the characteristics of a feudal monarchy:

a dynasty
peasants with no social welfare
low lifespan
low literacy
low sanitation
high death to disease
high infant mortality
superstition
corrupt police state
excessive military spending

 

[mrwarrior006]

^^^go fetch freedom first and then come back

 

[Justin Joseph]

So one feudal monarchy visits another feudal monarchy. What's news?

Troll alert, why are you posting one liners these are against the rules of this forum.

BTW, why don't u suggest democracy to big papa in cpc

 

[r3alist]

all of a sudden saudi's are indian best friends, which is interesting,

conveniently the indians have forgotten that the saudi's are the biggest exporters of islamic extremism in the form of wahabism and madrassa funding which on another thread they will lament, but now they shut up, what a joke some of you indians are.

 

[Justin Joseph]

all of a sudden saudi's are indian best friends, which is interesting,

conveniently the indians have forgotten that the saudi's are the biggest exporters of islamic extremism in the form of wahabism and madrassa funding which on another thread they will lament, but now they shut up, what a joke some of you indians are.

if tomorrow Pakistan get reformed we will tell the world that Pakistan is our friend. We will forget all the past and all the export by pak.

 

[Ingis]

all of a sudden saudi's are indian best friends, which is interesting,

conveniently the indians have forgotten that the saudi's are the biggest exporters of islamic extremism in the form of wahabism and madrassa funding which on another thread they will lament, but now they shut up, what a joke some of you indians are.

I guess we all love oil. Don't we?

 

[Imran Khan]

who many ministers visit india every week and other visitiors also why not thread for them or spice news for them????????????????

this news again and again repeat here for just flame > guys when the day you sign nuke deal with USA > russian defence minister visit pakistan same in islamabad for what????????????? > but we never like spice and flame

 

[Ingis]

who many ministers visit india every week and other visitiors also why not thread for them or spice news for them????????????????

this news again and again repeat here for just flame > guys when the day you sign nuke deal with USA > russian defence minister visit pakistan same in islamabad for what????????????? > but we never like spice and flame

Just sharing information Imran bhai. Don't think there is any intention to flame as Pakistan was barely mentioned in the article.

Besides, why see everything from Pakistan's perspective? Not much to do with Pakistan here.

India needs oil... that is why Indians take keen interest in relations with Saudi Arabia. Ministers from several countries visit India every week. But how many of them have more 400 billion barrels of crude oil reserves?

Saudi Arabia's growing ties with India are not at the expense of its ties with Pakistan. Indians are very well aware of that.

 

[Truth.Teller]

all of a sudden saudi's are indian best friends, which is interesting,

conveniently the indians have forgotten that the saudi's are the biggest exporters of islamic extremism in the form of wahabism and madrassa funding which on another thread they will lament, but now they shut up, what a joke some of you indians are.

Bro., it is weird how Muslims who complain about being subjected to unfair stereotype subject other Muslims to the very same stereotype they are complaining about !!

We hear all the talk about wahabism but when we actually evaluate things using our own brains we find out that away from western produced propaganda and away from sectarian wars, all the claims against wahabism seem to be not supported by facts on the ground.

Wahabism has been around for a long time never produced extremism until we heard of alqaeda. However, alqeda's spiritual leaders are Hanafis from Egypt. Omar Abdulrahman, Ayman Zawahiri etc are all former members of the Egyptian islamic jehad which's by all means not a whahabi group. Infact it opposes wahabism.

The ideology and principles of Alqaeda are just an identical copy of the ideology of the Egyptian jehad's ideology.. word by word and it's written years before alqeda was even established. The leader of alqaeda, bin laden, is shafei originally from Hadramaout, yemen and he grew up in a sufi house hold and his mentor the late Abdullah Azzam was shafei as well. so where is wahabism in all this?!! I mean come on !!!

i am not saying any of this in defence of wahabism, i am just saying the truth. bro, we need to start using our own brains and stop repeating what we hear without evaluation

 

[EjazR]

^^^
That's quite right. Its not wahabism/salafism or all these names being brandished about as the terrorism these groups indulge in has nothing related inherently to traditional Islam. It is a religious political ideology and extreme religious nationalism that could be applicable to any religion or ethnicity even.


And I must say that if GoP took ownership of (instead of deflecting) the extremists ideology problem and had been following what the Saudi Arabia has been doing to take care of the extremism issue, it might have been far more effective in preventing terrorist attacks than just using the military option.

An old documentary but interesting nonetheless on how Saudi Arabia has turned a new leaf
Rehab for Terrorists? . NOW on PBS

 

[EjazR]

'India a strategic partner of Saudi Arabia' - Arab News

Published: Apr 13, 2010 01:55 Updated: Apr 13, 2010 01:57

NEW DELHI: Riyadh Gov. Prince Salman held talks with Indian President Pratibha Devisingh Patil and Vice President Hamid Ansari here on Monday and highlighted the strategic relations between the two countries. “India is a strategic partner of Saudi Arabia,” Prince Salman told reporters.

Prince Salman expressed hope that Saudi-India relations would reach new heights in coming years. “I wish continued progress and prosperity for India and its people,” the prince added.

The governor said the landmark visit of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah to New Delhi in January 2006 was instrumental in bolstering bilateral ties. “Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visited Riyadh recently and signed several strategic agreements,” the prince said citing growing relations between the two Asian economic giants.

During the meeting, Ansari shared with the governor the pleasant memories of his time in Saudi Arabia as Indian ambassador and commended Prince Salman for his support in strengthening Saudi-Indian relations.

Meanwhile, Prince Salman met with Indian business and industrial leaders and spoke about the age-old relations between the two countries. “Saudi Arabia is a friend of India and our relations are growing day by day,” he added.

Prince Salman expressed hope that economic relations between the two countries would gain strength. “Saudi Arabia is a free and open economy,” the governor said, urging Indian businessmen and industrialists to establish stronger ties with the Kingdom.

In his welcome address, the chairman of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) thanked Saudi Arabia for hosting more than 1.5 million Indian workers and nearly 140,000 Indian Haj pilgrims. He said India had achieved a nine percent growth rate during the past two years. Two-way trade with Saudi Arabia reached $25 billion in 2008. He indicated India’s plan to invest in the Kingdom’s railways, telecom and technology sectors.

Abdul Rahman Al-Jeraisy, chairman of the Riyadh Chamber of Commerce and Industry, invited Indian businessmen to invest in the Kingdom’s vital industrial, electricity, desalination, railway, education and health sectors.

Minister of State for Communications and IT Sachin Pilot voiced India’s desire to boost relations with Saudi Arabia.

Earlier in the day, Prince Salman and his accompanying delegation visited the Saudi school in Delhi.

 

[jha]

just a question... how much has saudi invested in india..??

we should ask them to invest more..in tunes of 100 billions over next few years..

tab jaake aag lagegi kahin.. yeh to suruat hai ..