A tough call
Even in an ideal universe what Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa told a Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to Pakistan, Abdullah Marzouk Al-Zahrani, who called on him a other day during a General Headquarters would have been regarded as a kind of tactful pleasantness customarily resorted to on such occasions. But afterwards it is not an ideal universe in that we are critical today. We ourselves are fighting within what is decidedly an existential quarrel and being challenged during a same time by a 3 times bigger, armed to teeth Eastern neighbour on a one palm and a antagonistic one from opposite a north-western limit on a other. Not usually this. Pakistan currently has turn a socio-economic cauldron given to fissiparous tendencies. To explain during this connection that a Pakistan Army hold a counterclaim of Saudi Arabia “at standard with a own” –can have no some-more than controversial value. Of course, both Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are critical players in a on- going efforts to say informal fortitude with poignant shortcoming towards a whole world, generally a Muslim World. And of course, not usually a Pakistani Army though each Pakistani is thankful to urge with his possess life a sanctification and earthy well- being of all a holy places located in Saudi Arabia. God dissuade if and when such an arise arose Pakistanis to a final would not be found wanting.
Gen Bajwa, who became a army arch in November, final year, had left on a three-day central revisit to Saudi Arabia in December. In his assembly with Saudi emissary climax aristocrat and counterclaim apportion Muhammad bin Salman, a army arch had “reiterated Pakistan’s joining to a confidence and insurance of a holy mosques and also a territorial firmness of a kingdom”. The army arch had also called on Saudi King Salman bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud. They concurred that both Pakistan and Saudi Arabia were critical players in informal fortitude “with poignant shortcoming towards a whole Muslim ummah”. The Saudi aristocrat and Gen Bawja emphasised a need to continue operative to discharge a threat of terrorism and strengthen a resource to hurl behind extremism with even larger vigour. He had also met Chief of General Staff of Saudi Forces Gen Abdul Rehman bin Saleh Al Bunyan and discussed military-to-military relations, counterclaim team-work and informal confidence situation. Pakistan and Saudi Arabia suffer a longstanding attribute quite in a margin of defence. However, their ties saw an rare hiccup final year when council refused to concede Pakistani infantry to join a Saudi-led descent in Yemen opposite a Houthi rebels. And recently, when reports to a outcome that a former COAS Gen (retd) Raheel Shareef had been offering a pursuit of heading a corner army of 34 Muslim countries put together by KSA and that he had supposed a offer were being put out by a media, one could feel a inhabitant swell opposite a probability for some-more than one reason. The doubt was would this not impact a ‘policy of neutrality’ towards Saudi Arabia and Iran given that all 34 members of a bloc are Sunni infancy nations? Is there not this narrow-minded shade in this troops fondness given a 100 per cent Sunni prevalence of a countries that consecrate a alliance? The settled primary design of a corner force is “to strengthen a Muslim countries from all militant groups and militant organisations” though would this be probable with Iran, Iraq and Syria not being partial of this bloc though are a really countries that are during a centre of all conflicts that impact a whole Arab World. The fondness is also approaching to muster troops army in Syria to quarrel a IS. As is being felt zodiacally in Pakistan such a growth would be a good troops mistake.
Published in The Express Tribune, Jan 23rd, 2017.
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