Regarding indian workers u need to see some background.My thoughts as well. Thank you Saudia Arabia. Now can you please bend GCC to provide Pakistan the "most favoured" category for labour/workers. Send them Indians packing home to give Modi a kick up his as*s.
In return send all of Pakistan Army. Half to fight those Shia Houthis in Yemen and the other half to guard the Sauds - all sng in their palaces. Bottom line is all about dollars. A extra 2 million workers in KSA/GCC from Pakistan would mean about 20 million Pakistani's rising out of poverty which then would create a economic boom in Pakistan with GDP growth rising to maybe 7%. On the contrary as the 2 million unemployed Indian come back to India it would cause massive economic disaster for Modi. From airlines to demand inside India would fall leading to Indian economy slowing down.
If only ...
Before oil boom gulf countries were very poor even less developed than our city karachi. At that time many indians were working in gulf as small time businessmen , as there wasn't much wealth around so sheikhs were also not high on arrogance so many of these local pakistanis and indians , and pakistani balochs had good ties with gulf sheikhs.
Then oil boom happened, as indians had always been into running businesseses many of them benefitted and in decades ended up raising business empires that naturally helped local economies in gulf. As businesses grew these indian business owners only hired indian staff for their companies. Due to cheap labor indians managed to pick up many jobs.
So if sheikhs would have imposed on indian investors to hire pakistani workers they could have lost some business opportunities plus even if idnians did hire paksitanis they wouldnt have treated them well.
Also why pakistanis got left behind in business was their own ineptness , pakistanis dont make as brilliant businessmen as indians do. We only ace at corruption and stealing money whilst Indians engage in corruption as well as make good businessmen too.
One of my cousins was working in a multi national cos branch in gulf . It was a european company franchise perhaps sold to indians. So the entire firm had only two muslims and rest of the co workers were indian hindus , my cousins boss , an indian punjabi was nice with him but rest of the staff consisted of both north and south indian mallus who were virulent muslim haters and just wanted my cousin and other muslim guy to quit some way. At the end he was bullied so much by indians ,and thats a franchise of a european multi national company i am talking about , that my cousin ended up quitting.
Also i would say arab states worked with usa to plant regimes in pakistan to keep pakistan poor and use it as client state. Client states are poor countries who have to financially depend on rich states.
The whole ties and selling pakistani labor to gulf was started by none other than bhutto - a shia btw- anyways back in day it might have been good decision but now what are we? Ruled by corrupt politicians with a good chunk of economy dependent on gulf states remittances
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