India offers Saudis visa on arrival

[kseeker]

@I-G,

Save India from Wahhabism: 8th Annual General Meeting of All India Ulema and Mashaikh Board :: Center for Islamic Pluralism

Saudi charities pump in huge funds through hawala channels to radicalise the Valley : Special Report - India Today

What are your thoughts on aforementioned articles ?

 

[Blackwater]

Few points to remember.

India has allowed visa on arrival to tourist of 40 countries including Saudis.


but only for above 60 yrs old

 

[kseeker]

but only for above 60 yrs old

Sir, terrorism has no age or gender ! Why do you think, people above 60 years of age can't be terrorists ?

Forgot Tunda ? Tunda is around 70 years old and wanted in 21 cases !!!

 

[tramp]

India should strictly follow the principle of reciprocity in the case of visa on arrival deals.

 

[I-G]

Wrong.

They have been battling those who want to topple the Al Saud family.

There's a big difference.

Saudi monarchy is there because of the united support of all the tribes of Banu Tameem, Banu Khalid, Banu Rashid etc.

That monarchy itself came in power after the Arab tribes rejected Hussain bin Ali , when he declared himself as king of Arabs and Caliph of all the Muslims . Hussain bin Ali was seen as traitor by the Arab tribes for his support to the British .

Expect more islamic terror entering India through more and more Saudi clerics now funding and running terror camps in places like Kerala (the number one state with relations to Saudi), UP and W. Bengal.

Smells like a Pakistan here .

Tehelka - India's Independent Weekly News Magazine




Its not in the interest of Saudi Monarchy to support terrorism against India . Its the Saudis who have opened their doors for Indian firms and investors .


Saudi Arabia is offering investment opportunities worth $ 625 billion to Indian businessmen in vital sectors such as infrastructure, petrochemicals, electricity, IT, tourism, natural gas production, agriculture and education.
KSA offers India $ 625 bn investment opportunities | Arab News — Saudi Arabia News, Middle East News, Opinion, Economy and more.

Thanks a lot, liberal losers.

Salman Khurshid is pathetic.

This is nothing to do with being liberal or secular or fundamentalists. its about business .. India needs money for its development .

 

[I-G]

@I-G,

Save India from Wahhabism: 8th Annual General Meeting of All India Ulema and Mashaikh Board :: Center for Islamic Pluralism

These statements are linked to sectarian issues within Muslim community . These are all Baraelvis Ulema

Saudi charities pump in huge funds through hawala channels to radicalise the Valley : Special Report - India Today

Hawala channels are existed all over the world and even within India , there are hawala channels runs by Gujarathi Hindus , so does this means that Government of India is involve in this ? we all know that its the Pakistanis who are behind the pumping of huge funds inside Kashmir and elsewhere to create problems within India but this doesnt means that Indians should not keep relations with Arab world .


Of India's total international trade, Arab countries account for over 20 per cent. Within the Arab world, India's trade with the the Gulf Cooperation Council, or GCC, nations rose to $118.90 billion in 2010-11.
Ambika Sharma: A new spring for Indo-Arab ties | Business Standard

What are your thoughts on aforementioned articles ?

These are sectarian issues within the Muslim community but these doesnt affect India relations with Arab world .

 

[pmaitra]

Corrected your post in red.

Al Qaida is against Saudi monarchy similar like they were against Egyptian Baathist regime, but the Saudi Monarchy uses and aids them when they serve Saudi interests outside KSA that benefit the Saudi Monarchy.




Afghan Mujhadeens got funding and training from CIA and funding from Saudi Arabia, it was American media which brought Osama bin Laden in limelight to get recruits against the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan on which Saudis were very happy to undermine the Soviet Union, and they even sold oil at reduced prices to undermine the Soviet economy, despite the fact that Osama bin Laden aka Tim Osman was problematic for the Saudi Monarchy.



There was invitation of the Soviet Army by Afghanistan to fight against the local and imported mercenaries which lasted for 10 years.

 

[I-G]

Saudi Arabia funds extremists around the world extensively so that they will not not come home to roost. Plain and simple. There may be elements in Al Qaida who wanted to upstage Al Sauds and take over Ka'aba admin. But most benefit from the generous Saudi and Qatari funding channels.

The proportion of Saudi funding for a quake and flood hit areas in Asia is one school or hospital rebuilt to building 2/3 new mosques!!

not really ...

Most of the money goes in Charity for Muslims and Non Muslims in education and even in hospitals . and mostly its the saudis who give the largest humanitarian aid .



Saudi Arabia has emerged as the world's largest donor of humanitarian assistance outside the Western states, traditionally the members of OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC). In many recent natural disasters, the country's contributions far exceeded those of any traditional donors. In 2007, in response to Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh, which killed more than 3,000 people and left millions homeless, Saudi Arabia gave Bangladesh $158 million for humanitarian purposes, compared to $20 million from the United States and less from the United Kingdom (Smith 2010). Following the Haiti earthquake in 2010, the Saudi Kingdom made $50 million available to the Emergency Response Fund, a pooled funding mechanism set up by the United Nations. Saudi pledges for the ongoing response to the f loods that ravaged huge swathes of Pakistan in 2010 amount to $220 million - surpassing the pledges of all European donors taken together ($209 million) (Saudi Ministry of Interior 2010 and Smith 2010). In 2008, Saudi Arabia provided $500 million in cash to the World Food Program, the largest contribution in the Program's history.

For development and humanitarian aid to the Arab and Muslim world, Saudi Arabia is the undisputed leader. Between 1975 and 2005, total Saudi aid to developing countries amounted to $90 billion or 3.7% of its annual gross domestic product (GDP), far higher than the UN 0.7% of GDP target for development assistance and four times the average achieved by OECD-DAC countries. Saudi Arabia also helps finance many key regional development funds and instruments.
Saudi Arabia and Humanitarian Assistance: GPPi - Global Public Policy institute



p.s Right now its the Indians and Saudis who are working together in humanitarian aid via UN .

 

[Bilal]

I will say that any such move is good which will allow strengthening of ties between saudi and india.

 

[I-G]

Corrected your post in red.

Operation cyclone was started before the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and Operation Cyclone was started by United States of America and that was era of Cold war . Saudi Arabia was ally of Americans as the Syrians were ally of Soviets . Afghans refugees in Pakistan got hundreds of millions of aid from Saudi Arabia and even now they get it .

 

[LordOfTheUnderworlds]

Nothing wrong in it. AFAIK from my limited knowledge, many Arab students visit India for study now a days. And mostly they are quite normal well behaved friendly people, not some bearded extremists as often stereotyped in international media. Rather the wannabe Arabs in the Indian subcontinent are more likely to be weird.

 

[I-G]

Nothing wrong in it. AFAIK from my limited knowledge, many Arab students visit India for study now a days. And mostly they are quite normal well behaved friendly people, not some bearded extremists as often stereotyped in international media. Rather the wannabe Arabs in the Indian subcontinent are more likely to be weird.

those i think are not wannabe Arabs but Arabs only , who came and make India their homeland and have nothing to do with any Arab country now . India is a country where there have been immigration from all corners of the world . British, French, Dutch, Swedes,Portuguese, Russians(including White Soviets),Iranians, Africans, Arabs,Chinese,Tibetians.

 

[LETHALFORCE]

India is trying to increase foreign exchange revenues by offering this to 40 countries
Saudi Arabia is just one of them the countries are a good group with good economies.
The security issue if it is serious enough hold their passports like saudis do to others.