Today, foreign policy in parts of the Gulf is increasingly being guided by strategic, security, and global priorities rather than just religious or ideological affiliations.
IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.
This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.
Another academic giving unsolicited advice to Pakistan. Pakistan has never cared about world opinion either Muslim or non-Muslim. It does what it does, irrespective of world opinion. The problem has always been India, always looking for world approval. Right from approaching the UN in 1948 to constantly looking over the shoulder now, India has tied it’s own hands. There is no point in pontificating to Pakit, that’s like water over a duck’s back.
Another academic giving unsolicited advice to Pakistan. Pakistan has never cared about world opinion either Muslim or non-Muslim. It does what it does, irrespective of world opinion. The problem has always been India, always looking for world approval. Right from approaching the UN in 1948 to constantly looking over the shoulder now, India has tied it’s own hands. There is no point in pontificating to Pakit, that’s like water over a duck’s back.