The Saudi-Pakistani divorce

Abdel Bari Atwan- Huge consequences could follow from the demise of a seventy-year-old strategic alliance

Huge consequences could follow from the demise of a seventy-year-old strategic alliance

A small news item appeared on the business pages of Arab newspapers this week which shed light on a major strategic crisis that has been developing in the relationship between Saudi Arabia and long-time ally Pakistan. It could mark a turning point in the close partnership that has lasted for more than seven decades, ever since Pakistan’s separation from India in the late 1940s, between the kingdom that revels in its custodianship of Islam’s holiest shrines and the Islamic world’s only nuclear-armed power.

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