Yasser76
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There is a game of tooing and froing being played. It is a situation of who negotiates better. Provided the negotiator does not sell himself in the process it should be in Pak favour.
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A financially powerful Pakistan, with independent foreign policy, nuclear weapons and a powerful armed forces in alliance with Turkey will spell the end of Saudi leadership of the Islamic world, more so as global dependency on oil slowly decreases. Saudis may well realise.
If you take say the F-16 out of the equation Pakistan Armed forces will be almost immune to any US sanctions soon. You hold a months worth of US contractors and spare to Saudi the entire defence infrastructure will fall apart overnight. Again, Saudi Royals know this as does US.
Despite billions Saudis cannot even fully service F-15s that they have been using for 40 years. If I were to tell you Saudi population is 34 million and Pak population is 220 million yet they have more active Covid cases it tells you something about that country.
What ties Pakistan's hands is not just the cash/oil in the short term. You speak to any Pakistani Army Jawan or man on the street and they see Saudi Arabia as Pakistans ally (rightfully so most of the time) and a duty of Pakistan to protect the Holy Places. In fact this is almost ingrained in the army (less so in Air Force and Navy for some reason). COAS has to take this into account, just like we take sensitivities of our Shia population into account when dealing with Iran I can assure you there are many in Pak Army from Lt General to Lance Naik, who would see dumping Saudi as a betrayal of one of the very core tenants of Pakistan Army. I personally do not agree but Bajwa will be forced to think of this, not just geopolitics and economics when he visits The House of Saud. It would also be naive to assume Saudis do not know this either