technical arguments will not suffice - at the end of the day, the people will, as they already have, identify Pakistanis, as the ones pulling the trigger
Too bad - because first and foremost the Arabs should address the issue of their own 'Arab brethren' pulling the trigger and financing terrorism in Pakistan, and treating Pakistanis living in Arab lands like inferior human beings.
If they hold Pakistanis responsible for 'doing the job' they were hired to do by the Arab governments, without addressing the issue of Arabs carrying out and financing terrorism in Pakistan, then I don't really give a crap if they all get gunned down in XYZ square.
The Princes will escape to the West, to where will those Pakistanis who have made homes and lives in the Peninsula and Gulf escape to ??
If the lives of Pakistanis living in these Arab states will be in danger, then I would have to say that those acting against the protesters were in fact the 'right side', and that Pakistan would, and should, deploy its military to bomb the crap out of these protesters.
The people are not the enemy, Pakistan must always be on the side of the People
The people are not the enemy so long as Pakistanis are not unnecessarily harmed. I can understand Pakistanis in the security forces being attacked, since that would be violence against combatants, but there can be no condoning or justification for attacking Pakistani civilians resident in those countries.
If I cannot support Palestinian attacks against Israeli civilians after everything Israel has done to the Palestinians, then there certainly cannot be any support whatsoever for attacks by Arabs on Pakistani civilians residing in Arab States. There can be no argument over this - violence against Pakistani civilians makes the protesters the enemy.
---- We complain that US for last 60 odd years has had relations with army or establishment but never with the people and that's why it finds her policies identified with values which she herself would never say exemplifies US.
I certainly don't complain about that - I personally have always found that argument shallow and disingenuous. Most people would point to specific policy decisions by the US (sanctions, discrimination against Pakistan, double standards, support for Israel) etc. as the reasons behind disliking the US, and not some vague idea of 'the US engaged with the establishment but not the people'. That is just a canard spouted by pro-democracy commentators in Pakistan to convince the US to engage with the civilian sector more and cut off engagement with the military.
But that said, whatever the reasons behind disliking the US, they are not justification for attacks on American civilians either in Pakistan or abroad. The correct approach for Pakistani citizens would be to elect new political leadership that is more in sync with the kinds of domestic and foreign policies they want the Pakistani government to implement.
This is a internal problem of these states and the people are always right -- Pakistan has agreements with all these sates to help them in case of aggression, but not against the people, the agreement is to help them deter foreign aggression.
The people are only 'right' so long as civilians are not attacked. The 'people' need to take it up with their rulers and put the pressure on them, not on Pakistan or Pakistani civilians residing in Arab States.
