Is $20 Million aid to Pakistan equals to fund terror? Nation At 9

  • 5 years ago
India is the land of Nizamuddin Auliya, of chisti and kabir. Even the deobandi sect in India, whose ideologues in af-pak are the likes of the taliban, but in india it has scarce any extremist footholds, it's randomly bizarre fatwas often quietly ignored. Saudi arabia is the home of the puritanical and extremist islamic doctrine founded by ibn abd al-wahhab. Fatherland to osama bin ladin, they're rich with oil, so they get away with terror. The sunni saudis hate the shia iranians to the point of a century old blood feud. Despite recent rappochment & diplomatic niceties, they are no real friends of india. The saudi crown prince and the man now infamous for journalist jamal kashoggi being tortured and butchered alive in a saudi consulate in turkey has spent the past 24 hours in pakistan, sharing hugs with imran khan. It's an unlikely coincidence that pak backed terrorists attacked both india and iran with suicide bombs just in time for his visit. Anyone who understands the world of terror would tell you that that the saudis fund most of it. They're happy for the world to be at war, just as long as it's not inside their kingdom. Mbs now comes to india. He's just given a 20 billion dollar lifeline to pakistan. You can take it as a given that a large part of that will go to terror. The pakis are hoping that the saudis and the chinese become friends and the imran and bajwa the matchmakers. We in india need to be aware. Be aware of the infiltration of wahhabi radicalism, beware of how the saudis fund terror and the consider how a new deal with mbs can be worked out. But it cannot be done from a position of naivete or ignorance. Just like the bush family that had close business links to the al sauds had to deal with the fact of bin laden and 9/11. We must also deal with the saudis with eyes wide open. Lakhs of indian migrant workers are in saudi, terror, radicalism and the ability to effectively deny pakistan funds is at stake. How do we do it best is the conversation. On the eve of mbs' arrival.

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