An Arab country that saved the day for Pakistan: Gulf Times

Internews/Islamabad
An international conspiracy to split Pakistan into two zones by turning them into two separate geographic units was foiled by a brotherly Arab Muslim country in Dubai a week before the Friends of Pakistan meeting in Tokyo last week, a report said yesterday.
A plan to set up so-called “Trust Fund” was drawn up for provision of “special aid” for the provinces of Balochistan and the Frontier with huge amount of international assistance separately meant to disconnect them from rest of the country.
The idea had, however, been widely accepted by senior officials in Pakistan and even some high ups in Islamabad considered it a ‘lucrative’ and ‘harmless proposition’.
Sources revealed some Western countries campaigned to formalise the idea acceptable to all the participants of the Dubai meeting.
In this regard, several calls were made from Abu Dhabi to different capitals of the world to get an approval but the country in question, which enjoys tremendous esteem in the Muslim world and has a leading role for the Muslim Ummah, came in the way of the proposal.
This country delayed announcing its contribution for the Tokyo meeting. The country in question threatened that if the West continued to press for the proposal it would publicly announce its opposition to the idea and may stay away from the forum, the sources said.
This leading Muslim country was of the view that once the Trust Fund was established it would be used as conduit for the dismemberment of Pakistan.
The diplomats expressed apprehension about Pakistan’s interests and said once the Trust Fund became effective, the United Nations would be subsequently asked to come forward to play its role for the region to the detriment of Pakistan.
It was feared that in a calculated step, international financial institutions would contribute billions of dollars in the name of rehabilitation of those areas. Later, they would have asked the world body to come forward to play its role to save their huge investment there.
In this way action by the interested world powers would have the mandate of the United Nations to give it the cover of legitimacy.
This could have cut Pakistan down to size on the one hand, and paved the way for the creation of a buffer state between Pakistan and Afghanistan on the other. Most of the bordering countries of Pakistan would have supported such a division.

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