Several countries with great natural resources wealth have squandered their chances to be truly wealthy and prosperous: Venezuela, Nigeria, Iran, Russia. They either indulged in wrong geopolitical adventures and/or indulged their domestic population too much. In contrast, the GCC Arab countries, which this forum loves to hate, have lifted tens of millions of people out of poverty not only in their own countries but also to even more expats millions.
And pity that some Pakistanis here, especially the expat ones, advocate a resource starved, extremely overpopulated country like Pakistan to take an aggressive stance far beyond Pakistan's borders when a powerful, large eight decade old neighbor India is ready to pounce given any chance. Who needs enemies with friends like these?!