ABSTRACT
For well over forty years deep tectonic forces have been silently tearing Pakistan away from the Indian subcontinent and driving it towards the Arabian Peninsula. Pakistan's cultural transformation started, albeit slowly, soon after the Arab-Israeli war of 1973. The oil embargo caused the price of oil to skyrocket and with their new found wealth Arab countries could purchase labour and expertise from across the world, including Pakistan. Since the early twentieth century it has been known that Saudi Arabia has the world's largest oil reserves. This has been the central fact around which the Kingdom's relation with the United States and Britain has been built upon. Pakistan's relationship with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia lies at a different plane from that of America's. Women, in orthodox eyes, are the very source of temptation and evil. Segregation in Pakistan is nowhere as total as in Saudi Arabia, but it has substantially increased.
