"Saudia Arabia says days of unconditional foreign aid are now over"

[313ghazi]

So you want to ruin the lives of our hardworking Pakistanis doing everything they can to make money for their family? Do you have any idea what sacrifices so many families had to make in order to send their sons to KSA for work?

Oh I know only too well. I have many in my family who are in the UAE, Saudi, Hong Kong, Italy, Spain, France, UK, some legally, some illegally.

I know the expense they go through to get there - i know the sacrifice they make to stay there. They live a dogs life to save enough money to pay for a life there and to send extra money back.

I also know the poison the free meals and easy money has spread back home. In my own extended family, certain elements who have gotten used to eating from the money others send back - they have lost the ability to earn and the diginity to even try to be self sufficient for multiple generations. They have also lost the thankfulness for what they recieved, replacing it with expectation.

Our country will survive on expat money, but will never thrive from it. We need a cleanse with fire to change so we can survive without expat money.

 

[SQ8]

Why would KSA invest on a near corpse with vultures circling?

 

[Corruptistan]

Expats and remittances or not, Pakistan needs a complete reset otherwise Pakistan will only remain Pakistan in name and that too under the same ineffective, corrupt, parasitic and by large incompetent neutrals and their political henchmen and so-called business elites, while the awam will continue to be blind sheep and struggle to make ends meet as usual.

Lasting change only comes from within. Look at how much KSA changed just within a few years, mostly for the good. From the top (requires good and brave leadership) and down and now those changes have taken root among the people and made them hungrier for more positive change. They demand more from themselves and the country.

Why is there no Pakistani of power, whether military, business or clergy, that dares to speak the truth and call for even a minimal of change and reform?

I am excluding some progressive elements within PTI and the usual suspects who are attacked or even killed for trying to.

Why is it that the same problems facing Pakistan keep repeating themselves with seemingly no genuine public outrage to the degree of forcing change upon the decision makers? It is as if the Pakistani nation was a sleep and slowly but steadily moving towards a certain death/collapse.

I don’t understand anything any longer. New generations and the same **** as usual.

 

[Olympus81]

Bound to happen.

Pakistan is like that petulant kid who refuses to mend his ways. Therefore, a shock therapy is required.

Get your f******* house in order on your own.

 

[SoulSpokesman]

@313ghazi

Ghazi sb,

certain elements who have gotten used to eating from the money others send back - they have lost the ability to earn and the diginity to even try to be self sufficient for multiple generations.

From what little I know, the remittance is sent back for the most part by men to support wives, children and elderly parents. This is a natural sort of activity and dont see how it breeds dependency. Yeah if it was sent to brothers, cousins it would be a different thing but by and large such transfers are only a small part of the remittances.

Regards

 

[Inception-06]

Excellent news, Pakistan as nation must learn to stand on its own feet, it's never too late. I had also learned through the hard way.

 

[NooriNuth]

And then KSA can kick out all the Pakistani labour working there. This will dramatically reduce our remittances, resulting in making our economic crisis even worse.

Don't worry, Iran will take them all.
Pakistan loves Iran more than KSA

 

[N.Siddiqui]

A good omen, trade and not aid is the path to progress, aid rather impedes and slows the development of a person and nations alike.

Just as it turned a relatively good military into a mercenary, rentier military sold to the highest bidder and the govts and PM coming with iconic quote of 'beggars can't be choosers'.

The parasitic sense of entitlement, endowment must come to an end, for the military essentially and the elites at the helm.

 

[monitor]

And then KSA can kick out all the Pakistani labour working there. This will dramatically reduce our remittances, resulting in making our economic crisis even worse.

No Arab countries can suddenly expell foreign workers as it will harm their own development works .

 

[_NOBODY_]

No Arab countries can suddenly expell foreign workers as it will harm their own development works .

Indians can very easily replace these workers in just a couple of months.

 

[Rusty2]

No such thing as "Unconditional Aid"
All aid has conditions, implicit or explicit.

And I agree with all the Pakistani posters here. The people in Pakistan need to put up or shut up. No more living high on other people's effort.

 

[Imran Khan]

there should be no aid at all

 

[blain2]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1615707238277988352

Love it. I wish our leaders could utter this.

It should be the extended hand that should pull back first instead of the giving hand saying, enough!

As hideous as this may sound, economic hardship is the only thing that will wake this nation up to rely on itself and hold our leaders accountable for the economic misery we find ourselves in.

 

[Dalit]

there should be no aid at all

These people have become addicted to aid. I said this years ago on another defence forum. My assessment was right then. It is also right today. The generals want easy money and equipment. Military and economic aid.

 

[313ghazi]

@313ghazi

Ghazi sb,

certain elements who have gotten used to eating from the money others send back - they have lost the ability to earn and the diginity to even try to be self sufficient for multiple generations.

From what little I know, the remittance is sent back for the most part by men to support wives, children and elderly parents. This is a natural sort of activity and dont see how it breeds dependency. Yeah if it was sent to brothers, cousins it would be a different thing but by and large such transfers are only a small part of the remittances.

Regards

I cannot speak for everyone but the people I know in the UK have supported brothers, sisters, cousins, neices, nephews - helped build houses, setup businesses, buy farmland.

Almost everyone has a story of being ripped off by the very same relatives.