My friend you jump on getting angry very quick. Syria was not a failed state for 40 years that statement is wrong. Pakistan has been doing business with Syria for a very long time. Much of Pakistani crude oil came from Syria before the civil war and Pakistan sold many commodities to Syria. It was a huge buyer of Pakistan products. Syria was one of the most advanced Arab nations. Now that Syria has been pushed into war and destroyed is some thing totally different. I don't do propaganda I speak truth no matter how hard. Here is a simple question. Why is Libya destroyed. Libya was the richest economies of Africa. Gaddafi was sunni and population was also sunni so where is the human rights violation there? these are all excuses get above them.
Syria destroyed and Libya destroyed because they were threat to Israel. Rest are puppets so they progress.
And lets keep this prostitution out of discussion here because gulf are muslim countries and if I say some thing it will be hurting my own self.
And then hafeez al assad took over and send terrorist to Pakistan..Al Zulfikar was supported by Syria...all this trade was at behest of another failed socialist leader bhutto..otherwise I have read Syrian and Iraqi history long enough to know..these countries were only good as European colonies..we have been needlessly involved in middle east conflict while getting a hoot from Arabs..time to get rid of excess baggage and focus on our own priorities..!
Arab don't care about Palestine or Pakistan and Pakistan don't need Arabs to care for us. It is Arabs who need Pakistan to care for them. Plus Palestinian are not Arabs any more. Palestinians are now just random Muslims being killed so start caring for them.
they are getting what they deserve..when people dont care for themselves..none should..sorry but nature is about survival of the fittest...and in this era..fit is a very diverse term..
"When I left home this morning, I felt that I could die. I want to be a martyr. I want it since my youngest age. " Walla Abu Naji is certain that her mother would be delighted to such an end.
Such sick and perverted mentality deserved what they get..they want to die..and Israel gave them death..
We served the same treatment to our mullahs..and sent them fast to heaven..we would not have terrorist outfits and suicide bombers..
https://www.dawn.com/news/737798
Syria-Pakistan relations
From the NewspaperJuly 28, 2012
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PAKISTAN’s ties with Syria had nose-dived after Gen Zia hanged prime minister Z.A. Bhutto. Syrian President Hafez Al Assad had urged Zia to spare the elected prime minister’s life. President Assad took serious offence to Zia’s rejection of his plea.
I presented my credentials in early 1982, at a time when our ties with Syria had hit rock bottom.
After the hijacking of a PIA Boeing-707 by Al Zulfiqar militants to Damascus, Syria treated the hijackers as state guests.
Ties with Syria were bad when a delegation led by our defence secretary-general Maj-Gen Rahim Khan landed in Damascus to negotiate the return of the hijacked aircraft and passengers.
The delegation was ill-treated, with Damascus siding with the hijackers who demanded release of Al-Zulfiqar detainees in Pakistani jails.
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Ambassador Maj-Gen Sarfraz Khan was recalled, and I was sent to Damascus with the mandate to normalise relations.
During the next five years relations with Syria were normalised.
The PIA aircraft and passengers were returned after 150 Al-Zulfiqar militants arrived in Damascus.
Later on President Zia was able to visit Syria and had a one-to-one meeting with President Assad.
A number of trade and cultural protocols were signed. I organised an international seminar on Dr Allama Iqbal’s revolutionary poetry in the prestigious Assad library. Papers were read by renowned Arab and Iranian scholars. I established Pakistan International School in Damascus in 1982. It is now one of the most prestigious Pakistani education institutions abroad.
President Assad was concerned about the political instability in Pakistan. During an audience the Syrian president said: “Had Pakistan adopted Arabic, the language of the Quran, as the national language, the lingual rifts and political divisions and anarchy would not have occurred. Pakistan would have remained a united country.”
I reported this to the government and to President Zia.
President Assad ruled with an iron fist. He promoted relations with Moscow, established socialist dictatorship, armed the Allawite minority, which comprised 10 per cent of the population, but discriminated and was unjust towards the 80 per cent Sunni population.
His policy of confronting Israel, and his steadfast policy for the return of Arab land annexed by Israel after the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, earned him few friends in the West.
The Sunni population feels it has been discriminated against, and has risen in armed revolt against tyranny.
All cities, towns and localities which have risen in revolt have been destroyed. Hundreds of Syrians have fled to neighbouring Turkey, Jordan, and Lebanon. The situation now is out of hand.
After the death of six top generals and cabinet ministers in Free Syrian Army’s attack on the National Security Headquarters, the situation now is out of hand. Syria's future is bleak.
AYAZ AHMED KHAN Former ambassador to Syria