NEW DELHI: Islamabad’s decision to send its troops to Saudi Arabia is likely to have serious repercussions on Pakistan’s domestic front, India’s defence analysts feel.
Pakistan has taken a calculated risk by agreeing to send troops to Saudi Arabia, which, in a way, can be interpreted as supporting the USS move in the Gulf, experts at the institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) said, reports PTI.
Any involvement in the gulf by outside powers, either Pakistan or Egypt, might have a serious backlash on these countries since the crusade is now articulated by Iraq as ranging the Arabs on one side and the Zionists and imperialists on the other, they say.
Even Egypt’s sending of its task force to Saudi Arabia, experts say, was part of the American blackmail to discontinue economic and military aid. Egypt is the largest recipient of USS. Aid in the region after Israel.
Similarly, how the Iranians are going to view Pakistan’s participation in the Gulf in support of the Saudi royal family has to be watched carefully.
“Iran has often described the Saudi royal family as stooges of satanic forces.
” Iran is capable of calling upon the Pakistani Shia population to stage a revolt against the Aslam Beg-Jatoi clique for its move to send troops to the Saudi territory facing a possible Iraqi threat.
Article extracted from this publication >> August 24, 1990
