It is some cheap indian newspaper presenting things as if india is swaping pakistans place as saudias ally.
India could never be what pakistan is for saudis.
Because there always has remained this unspoken agreement between pakistan and saudia that pakistans nuclear weapons and military will provide security to saudis.India has always always known of pakistans special relationship with saudia and that how much saudia stood by us in developing our nuclear weapons as in financial support(not a lot but still at some crucial junctions) ,so defo india has always made efforts to ruin this relationship.
When in 70s bhutto had announced we will eat grass but build nuclear weapons our gov was as usual cash strapped, then saudis had given some financial help. Secondly, in 98 when pakistan had feared sanctions for conducting nuclear tests, again saudia had offered support to provide free oil or oil on credit, hence gov had moved ahead with tests.
In 65 war saudis stood by us. I am in no sense ever gonna favor yemen conflict so dont take me wrong here.
So the mutually beneficial relationship has alwasys existed. Whenever saudis had spent on our gov they did with their own interests in mind.
It was never in saudias favor to see a strong arab state cuz that would mean overthrowing saudi hegemony or influence in region. so saudia never helped any arab muslim nation to get ahead in this sense but as pakistan is a non arab state and was facing economic issues,so even if it had emerged as nuclear power it wouldnt have become a risk to saudis hegemony etc.
So these are purely indian dreams to replace pakistan, but saudis will never touch indians with a 1 billion light year length pole.
And saudis are well aware of indian soldiers capabilities,woh apnay liey tau kuch kar lain saudis ki kiya madad karain gay.
On yemen crisis indians had taken to internet that your army is mercenary army, lolz ,lemme tell you , our army has it what it takes, hence sought for help, but anyone ever asked you for help???? Niyah Bro!
