There are a few rules i am sure 99% of our brothers on this website will cover
Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, the brotherhood is over.
The relationship that the UAE will have with Pakistan is going to look very different moving forward.
Personally I would say our future is the development of our own economy and investment in ourselves. However, in terms of foreign relations and ties it's far more likely with Iran and Turkey, members of the former CENTO block, and with China.
What I expect is that Pakistani's will increasingly shift away from the GCC like we were in the 90s as remittances and the need to work abroad resulted in them representing less and less of the overall share in our GDP and economic growth until such point relations with the UAE and GCC as a whole doesn't matter.
I never agreed with my father on his views of Arabs but after I saw how you treated the Muslims of Yemen, Bahrain, Syria, Palestine, etc... I get why his views were so negative.
Eventually we'll need to deal with the UAE's support of terrorists like the BLA in Pakistan, opposition to Gwadar, support of hegemonic Hindu terrorists, money laundering for criminals and corrupt politicians in our country as well as being a hideaway for them.
It will look like South Asia. All the Arabs will move to KSA with their wealth leaving another failed state.
I mentioned this in another a while back where I saw this coming though this announcement kind of came sooner than I expected.
There's a threat that the GCC Arab nations face far greater than the low oil prices and that's an exodus of expats living in the country and no new immigrants coming in.
90% of the UAE's population are expats what happens to the economy when they leave and no new immigrants arrive to replace them?
This is coming whether people like it or not because as the economies of countries like Pakistan, India and Bangladesh improve (and our respective communities make up almost 50% of the overall UAE population) people will go back home while there'll be few arrivals.
However, them offering citizenship is interesting.
People will have to give up the freedoms of democracy and representative governments to live under an authoritarian Arab despot and his family.
How long before they demand democracy?
Will the UAE become a constitutional monarchy?
I also don't see Pakistan allowing dual nationality with the UAE but it doesn't matter because the UAE isn't offering dual nationality either which makes sense because they don't want people having an escape route from their persecution.
Personally I'm just looking forward to ending our ties with the GCC.
We'll have to deal with their support of terrorists, money laundering and criminal elements as well as work with allies to promote democracy and freedom for Muslims in the Middle East.
This should never have been a project left up to non-Muslims instead it should have always been a Muslim lead initiative.
Just because they now hand out citizenships doesn’t mean they won’t stop rounding up & deporting anyone they want out.
Very true.
How long before people demand democracy and those Arab despots start dropping barrel bombs on protestors like we saw in Syria or they go around burning their homes down like they did in Bahrain?