Ok seems like its time to make some enemies right at the start of the year.
There is no real propinquity for KSA in Pakistan for the word Saud in its name. However, nearly quarter of our population affiliated to Iran for sectoral reasons is emotional to say the least. Emotions are nemesis of logic. We are born perfect Muslims and we adopt a sect because our parents had one and they had it because their parents had one and we keep picking fights for the rest of our lives defending those sectoral beliefs. A story of 99% of Pakistani Muslims.
So implications for Pakistan in US-Iran brewing conflict are none whatsoever because Pakistan is comfortably lapped in US-KSA corner of the ring. Our side is chosen and clear at the outset. And its not a matter of choice. Since I'm not a diplomat, so I have the advantage of not spinning things in diplomatic language.
US and Iran are not enemies may be because after US and Israel, Iran has third largest jew population in the world who have synagogues, are well settled and move at will between Israel and Iran. Traditionally, gloves never went off between this trio, nor will they in current scenario. If your sectarian red light is on, please leave this useless piece and do something better, for I don't have a sect, so I don't know what it feels like being a person of any sect in a situation like this.
Irani general Qasem Soleimani was instrumental in checking the advances of ISIS in Iraq. An ISIS created by US. Hyped by US and checked by Iran should raise some eye brows in curiosity. Not only that Iraq was gifted to Shia minority but from west of Balochistan till Mediterranean Sea south of Lebanon, for the first time a telling Iran controlled belt was created which was knocking at the doors of Qatar, Bahrain and UAE. Over the past two decades, all this space was allowed to Iran by US in cognizance to Israeli interests in the region. I have no problem with Iran's expansion as long as its not done in the name of God. Political and economic growth and hegemony is every country's right in the Free World.
There is no Sunni world. KSA does not represent sunni Islam. KSA represents Al Saud tribe who somehow got the privilege of looking after Harmain Sharifain. But when you have money, custody of holiest of places, you may tend to expand or challenge corresponding expanding ideology like that of Iran's. So KSA, over the years continued building an air of insecurity among ardent sunni Muslims around the world for its own hegemonic designs in the region. But with very little success except some easy buy offs like Pakistan who could not manage themselves but were smart enough to make a bomb (literally an insurance bond).
To be continued in part two.
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