King Abdullah has passed away - PDF extends its condolences to the Saudi people

[DESERT FIGHTER]

Rest in peace..... To Allah we belong.

 

[xenon54 out]

RIP, my condolences to Saudis.

 

[JonAsad]

@Mahmoud_EGY @Frogman @agentny17

Al-Azhar

Thank you brothers.

Makkah;

More from the funeral prayer;

@rockstar08

Yes, he has very close ties to Pakistan.

@al-Hasani why is the 'kafan' the piece of cloth covering the body is yellow and not white?-

 

[Pakistani E]

إِنَّا لِلّهِ وَإِنَّـا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعون

Some people really need to learn some manners, no matter what he did you do not disrespect the dead. Leave that discussion for another thread, this is coming from someone who has said some unsavoury things about him in the past.

 

[Green Arrow]

RIP.

 

[haviZsultan]

He was very close to Nawaz Sharif. RIP.

 

[al-Hasani]

He was very close to Nawaz Sharif. RIP.

His excellency Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif landed in Riyadh 1-2 hours ago. He will be present for the burial along with many other international leaders, friends and allies.

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[Sugarcane]

His excellency President Nawaz Sharif landed in Riyadh 1-2 hours ago. He will be present for the burial along with many other international leaders, friends and allies.

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He is Prime Minister.....

 

[Dr. Strangelove]

His excellency Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif landed in Riyadh 1-2 hours ago. He will be present for the burial along with many other international leaders, friends and allies.

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mate he isnt the president

 

[al-Hasani]

He is Prime Minister.....

I was too quick there. Noticed the mistake before your post actually.

I even took the photo from this article;

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/web...-Sharif-lands-in-Saudi-for-royal-funeral.html

Bahrain’s King Hamad arrives in Saudi for royal funeral
Friday, 23 January 2015

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Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa arrived in the Saudi capital Riyadh on Friday to join world leaders for the funeral prayer of late Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz at Riyadh's Imam Turki bin Abdullah mosque.

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/web...Hamad-arrives-in-Saudi-for-royal-funeral.html

Last photographs of King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz

By Al Arabiya News | Staff Writer
Friday, 23 January 2015
Photographs of the late Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz leaving his palace in Riyadh for Rawdat Khuraim wildlife park at the end of December 2014, were the last taken of him before he died.


In one picture the king appeared to be bidding farewell to his brother Salman bin Abdulaziz, who succeeded to the throne on Friday, and a number of other royal family member.



Last Update: Friday, 23 January 2015 KSA 17:50 - GMT 14:50

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/med...otographs-of-King-Abdullah-bin-Abdulaziz.html

 

[dexter]

His constant support to Pakistan specially after the US sanctions due to Nuke tests , earthquake 2005 , floods in 2010 and 2012 will be remembered.
May ALLAH reward him with the highest reward in Jannah.

 

[al-Hasani]

His constant support to Pakistan specially after the US sanctions due to Nuke tests , earthquake 2005 , floods in 2010 and 2012 will be remembered.
May ALLAH reward him with the highest reward in Jannah.

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Thank you dear brother.

Saudi Arabia's new King Salman promises continuity​

Saudi Arabian King Salman has pledged continuity, hours after his accession to the throne following the death of his half-brother, King Abdullah.

The new king moved swiftly to appoint heirs and ministers, including one prince from the ruling dynasty's third generation.

King Abdullah died overnight, weeks after being admitted to hospital with a lung infection.

He was buried in an unmarked grave in Riyadh, following Friday prayers.

His burial was conducted in line with the traditions of Wahhabism - the ultra-conservative form of Sunni Islam followed by the kingdom - where funerals are austere and simple.

King Abdullah's body was wrapped in a shroud and taken by ambulance to the Imam Turki bin Abdullah mosque in Riyadh.

Following prayers, which were attended by Gulf heads of state as well as foreign leaders including Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, his body was taken to a public cemetery and buried.

Mourners carried King Abdullah's body wrapped in a white shroud​

'Correct policies'

Within hours of acceding to the throne of the oil-rich kingdom, King Salman, 78, vowed to maintain the same policies as his predecessors.

"We will continue adhering to the correct policies which Saudi Arabia has followed since its establishment," he said in a speech broadcast on state television.

The new king's profile was updated on his official Twitter account, where he wrote: "I ask God to help me succeed in my service of the dear [Saudi] people."

He named another of King Abdullah's half-brothers, Muqrin, who is in his late 60s, as the new crown prince.

Interior Minister Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, 55, was appointed deputy crown prince, making him second in line to the throne and effectively smoothing the line of succession for years to come.

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Crown Prince Nayef is a grandson of King Abdulaziz, usually referred to as Ibn Saud, the founder of modern Saudi Arabia. The crown has so far passed between Ibn Saud's sons, but few are still alive.

King Salman also appointed his own son, Mohammed bin Salman, as defence minister. Other ministers, including foreign, oil and finance, were kept in place, state TV reported.

Saudi burial customs: Martin Asser, BBC Arabic

The funeral of a Saudi monarch is a low-key affair, rooted in the kingdom's ultra-conservative religious practice.

One of the world's wealthiest monarchs - who in life resided in lavish palaces - is buried in an unmarked grave in a public cemetery.

Protocol permits no official mourning period, government offices stay open and flags remain at full mast.

The reason is that the House of Saud practises one of the strictest codes of Islam - known as Wahhabism - in which followers try to emulate precisely the behaviour of the Prophet Muhammad and avoid anything seen as un-Islamic "innovations".

Public displays of grief are frowned upon by a religious establishment which views every aspect of life and death as a submission to God's supreme will.

That means funerals are very austere and puritanical in character, with a strong impression of egalitarianism in death.

The BBC's Sylvia Smith reports from Saudi Arabia's second city, Jeddah, that the streets were quiet as people flocked to mosques for Friday prayers.

King Salman spent 48 years as governor of Riyadh province before becoming crown prince and defence minister.

BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner says it is thought unlikely that he will embark on any great changes.

In a recent meeting with the BBC in Jeddah, he appeared alert and well-briefed but walked with the aid of a stick, our correspondent adds.

King Abdullah came to the throne in 2005 but had already been Saudi Arabia's de-facto leader for 10 years because his predecessor, King Fahd, had been debilitated by a stroke.

Analysis: Frank Gardner, BBC security correspondent
Saudi Arabia under King Salman faces a number of challenges. The first is ensuring the succession passes smoothly without any divisive jockeying for power within the ruling family. Then there is the ongoing threat from jihadists, both at home and across its borders.

Saudi Arabia is now sandwiched between the aggressive Islamic State (IS) group to the north and al-Qaeda in Yemen to the south. Saudi warplanes have joined the US-led coalition in air strikes against IS, but this is deeply unpopular with many Saudis.

The government has yet to find a way to cope with mild calls for reforms, and is abusing anti-terror laws to silence reformers and punish its critics. Longer term, it faces a growing unemployment problem. About half the population is under 25 and there are nowhere near enough meaningful jobs for young Saudis.

But the country does at least have oil in its favour. With prices below $45 a barrel, Saudi Arabia is one of the very few exporting countries to still make big margins on production and exploration. That puts it in a powerful position on the world stage.

Abdullah was said to be aged about 90. He had suffered frequent bouts of ill health in recent years, and King Salman had recently taken on the ailing monarch's responsibilities.

US President Barack Obama paid tribute to Abdullah as a leader who "was always candid and had the courage of his convictions". Vice-President Joe Biden said he would lead a delegation to Riyadh to pay respects.

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin praised Abdullah's "grounded, considered and responsible leadership", while Iran offered Saudi Arabia its condolences and said its foreign minister would travel to Riyadh for an "official ceremony" on Saturday.

However, human rights groups said Saudi Arabia's human rights record had been poor under Abdullah.

"There was a huge public campaign depicting him as a reformist," Sevag Kechichian, Middle East researcher for Amnesty International, told the BBC. "But in reality the facts on the ground are quite different... I can point to a large number of negative developments in just a couple of months."

Meanwhile, Human Rights Watch's deputy Middle East director Joe Stork said Abdullah's "agenda fell far short of achieving lasting institutional gains for Saudi citizens".

After 2011, the "authorities subordinated the king's reform agenda to a campaign to silence peaceful dissidents", he added.

BBC News - Saudi Arabia's new King Salman promises continuity

 

[Mosamania]

@al-Hasani why is the 'kafan' the piece of cloth covering the body is yellow and not white?-

It is his personal Mishlah over his white Kafan, some use the brown one, others the white one, rarely the black one. But generally people are buried with a Mishlah they used to wear.

 

[al-Hasani]

Profile: King Salman of Saudi Arabia
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King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud acceded to the Saudi throne on the death of his half-brother, King Abdullah.

He was governor of Riyadh province for 48 years before becoming defence minister in 2011 and crown prince a year later.

Aged 79 when he came to the throne, he had already taken on the duties of the king as Abdullah's health faded.

King Salman is part of an influential faction within the royal family formed of sons and grandsons of the late King Abdulaziz (usually referred to as Ibn Saud) by a favourite wife, Princess Hassa al-Sudairi.

After the deaths of the former king, Fahd, who ruled from 1982 until 2005, and two previous crown princes, Sultan and Nayef, Salman was already the most powerful surviving member of this faction.

King Salman: Key facts

• Born on 31 December 1935
• Son of Princess Hassa al-Sudairi
• Governor of Riyadh from 1955-1960 and again from 1963 to 2011
• Appointed defence minister upon death of his brother Crown Prince Sultan
• Owns important stake in one of the Arab world's largest media groups

As governor of Riyadh, he oversaw its transformation from an isolated desert town into a crowded city of skyscrapers, universities and Western fast-food chains.

The post raised his international profile as he hosted visiting VIPs and envoys and helped secure foreign investment.

As defence minister he was head of the Saudi military as it joined the US and other Arab countries in air strikes in Syria in 2014 against the Islamic State militant group.

King Salman (left) has promoted his son Prince Mohammed (right) to defense minister​

In common with some of the other most senior royals in government, he has few publicly acknowledged business interests.

Three of his sons in succession have chaired the Saudi Research & Marketing Group (SRMG), which owns newspapers and magazines, including London-based daily Asharq al-Awsat.

King Salman is not believed himself ever to have been listed as a shareholder.

King Salman's sons include:

• Prince Mohammed, whom he has appointed defence minister and head of the royal court
• Deputy Oil Minister Prince Abdulaziz
• Prince Faisal, the governor of Medina
• Prince Sultan, the head of the tourism authority and a former Royal Saudi Air Force pilot and astronaut
• Prince Turki, who chairs SRMG.

The BBC's security correspondent, Frank Gardner, says King Salman is not believed to be as personally interested in political or social reform as his predecessor.

King Salman's priority will be to maintain stability in Saudi Arabia, he says.

King Salman may seek a closer accommodation with the Saudi religious leadership​

Karen Elliott House, author of a book on Saudi Arabia's political affairs, told the BBC King Salman "has a reputation for being more oriented towards the religious leadership of Saudi Arabia".

"You can assume there will be at least a slight accommodation to their desires for a more rigorous religion in Saudi Arabia," she said.

Other commentators have drawn attention to King Salman's reputation as a mediator within the huge Saudi royal family, with its complex network of competing factions.

This task has become more fraught as the second tier of senior political posts in Saudi Arabia - the control of key ministries and governorships - has passed from the sons to grandsons of the late King Abdulaziz.

Health issues

King Salman's own Sudairi faction within the family, once a powerful and united group of seven full brothers, has itself developed internal rivalries as the sons of those brothers establish their own power bases.

The king's health has also been a concern. He is reported to have suffered at least one stroke that has left him with limited movement in his left arm.

Correspondents say he has appeared alert and well-briefed in recent meetings but, given his age, there are concerns about his stamina.

After becoming king he announced that the new crown prince would be his half-brother Muqrin bin Abdulaziz, the youngest surviving son of the late King Abdulaziz.

BBC News - Profile: King Salman of Saudi Arabia

It is his personal Mishlah over his white Kafan, some use the brown one, others the white one, rarely the black one. But generally people are buried with a Mishlah they used to wear.

I was about to mention that but I was not sure if he was buried in his own personal mishlah or not. At a closer look you could see that he was wrapped in more than just the mishlah.

 

[My-Analogous]

King Abdullah, a Shrewd Force Who Reshaped Saudi Arabia, Dies at 90
By DOUGLAS MARTIN and BEN HUBBARDJAN. 22, 2015

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King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia in 2007. CreditDylan Martinez/Reuters
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  King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, who came to the throne in old age and earned a reputation as a cautious reformer even as the Arab Spring revolts toppled heads of state and Islamic State militants threatened the Muslim establishment that he represented, died on Friday, according to a statement on state television. He was 90.
  
  The Royal Court said in a statement broadcast across the kingdom that the king had died early Friday. The royal court did not disclose the exact cause of death. An announcement quoted by the official Saudi Press Agency said the king had a lung infection when he was admitted on Dec. 31 to a Riyadh hospital.
  
  The king’s death adds yet another element of uncertainty in a region already overwhelmed by crises and as Saudi Arabia is itself in a struggle with Iran for regional dominance.
  
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  The royal family moved quickly to assure a smooth transition of power in a nation that is a close ally of the United States, the world’s largest exporter ofoil and the religious center of the Islamic faith. In a televised statement, Abdullah’s brother, Crown Prince Salman, announced that the king had died and that he had assumed the throne.
  
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  Abdullah, left, with Crown Prince Salman, right, in 2010. Salman announced Friday that he had assumed the throne. CreditSaudi Press Agency, via Associated Press
  Salman’s ascension appears to signal that the kingdom will preserve its current policies, but he faces exceptional new challenges. Though Saudi Arabia has traditionally preferred to push its agenda through checkbook diplomacy, it has taken a far more muscular approach since the Arab Spring, offering generous support to its allies, like Egypt, while working to oppose adversaries like President Bashar al-Assad of Syria and the Muslim Brotherhood.
  
  Even as the drop in the price of oil has depleted its own treasury, it has steadfastly refused to cut the supply, hoping to increase market share at the expense of adversaries that are less able to pump oil at low prices.
  
  “As our countries worked together to confront many challenges, I always valued King Abdullah’s perspective and appreciated our genuine and warm friendship,” President Obama said in a statement issued by the White House. “As a leader, he was always candid and had the courage of his convictions.”
  
  Accidents of birth and geology made Abdullah one of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful men. In control of a fifth of the world’s known petroleum reserves, he traveled to medical appointments abroad in a fleet of jumbo jets, and the changes he wrought in Saudi society were fueled by gushers of oil money.
  
  As king he also bore the title custodian of Islam’s holiest sites, Mecca and Medina, making him one of the faith’s most important figures.
  
  Abdullah had grown accustomed to the levers of power long before hisascension to the throne in August 2005. After his predecessor, King Fahd, a half brother, had a stroke in November 1995, Abdullah, then the crown prince, ruled in the king’s name.
  
  Yet Abdullah spoke as plainly as the Bedouin tribesmen with whom he had been sent to live in his youth. He refused to be called “your majesty” and discouraged commoners from kissing his hand. He shocked the 7,000 or so Saudi princes and princesses by cutting their allowances. He was described as ascetic, or as ascetic as someone in the habit of renting out entire hotels could be.
  
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  Abdullah’s reign was a constant effort to balance desert traditions with the demands of the modern world, making him appear at times to be shifting from one to the other.
  
  When popular movements and insurgencies overthrew or threatened long-established Arab rulers from Tunisia to Yemen in 2011, he reacted swiftly.
  
  On his return from three months of treatment for a herniated disk and a blood clot in New York and Morocco, his government spent $130 billion to build 500,000 units of low-income housing, to bolster the salaries of government employees and to ensure the loyalty of religious organizations.
  
  He also created a Facebook page, where citizens were invited to present their grievances directly to him, although it was not known how many entries actually reached him.
  
  But in at least two telephone calls he castigated President Obama for encouraging democracy in the Middle East, saying it was dangerous. He showed no tolerance in his country for the sort of dissent unfolding elsewhere.
  
  The grand mufti, the kingdom’s highest religious official, proclaimed that Islam forbade street protests. Scores of protesters who failed to heed that message were arrested in the chiefly Shiite eastern provinces. A new law imposed crippling fines for offenses, like threatening national security, that could be broadly interpreted.
  
  Reaching beyond his borders, Abdullah sent tanks to help quell an uprising in neighboring Bahrain.
  
  Moves of Moderation
  
  Still, Abdullah became, in some ways, a force of moderation. He contested Al Qaeda’s militant interpretations of the faith as justifying, even compelling, terrorist acts. He ordered that textbooks be purged of their most extreme language and sent 900 imams to re-education sessions. He had hundreds of militants arrested and some beheaded.
  
  But he was also mindful that his family had, since the 18th century, derived its authority from an alliance with the strict Wahhabi sect of Sunni Islam. He accordingly made only modest changes to the kingdom’s conservative clerical establishment. When Islamic State forces conquered vast stretches of Syria and Iraq, imposing a creed linked to Saudi Arabia’s own, the kingdom was slow to respond.
  
  However, Abdullah chastised senior clerics for not speaking out more forcibly against the jihadists, and he eventually sent Saudi pilots to participate in an American-led campaign against the Islamic State.
  
  Abdullah’s Saudi Arabia had hurtled from tribal pastoralism to advanced capitalism in little more than a generation. The fundamentalist clerics who gave the family legitimacy remained a powerful force. Women who appeared in public without the required covering risked arrest or a beating from the religious police.
  
  Abdullah did make changes that were seen as important in the Saudi context. He allowed women to work as supermarket cashiers and appointed a woman as a deputy minister. At the $12.5 billion research university he built and named for himself, women study beside men.
  
  However, he did not fulfill a promise made to Barbara Walters of ABC News in his first televised interview as king in October 2005: that he would allow women to drive, a hugely contentious issue in Saudi Arabia.
  
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  Although he ordered the kingdom’s first elections for municipal councils in 2005, a promised second election, in October 2009, in which women would vote, was postponed until September 2011. Then in March of that year, the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs announced that the question of women voting would be put off indefinitely “because of the kingdom’s social customs.”
  
  Abdullah’s greatest legacy, however, may prove to be a scholarship program that sent tens of thousands of young Saudi men and women abroad to study at Western universities and colleges. It has been suggested that the changes long resisted by conservative forces — resistance that even a king could not overcome — would one day come about as those young men and women rose in the government, industry and academia.
  
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  President George W. Bush escorting Abdullah, then the crown prince, to Mr. Bush’s private office on his ranch in April 2005. CreditPool photo by Rod Aydelotte
  Perhaps Abdullah’s most daunting challenge arrived in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, with the revelation that 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudis. The royal family at first railed at what it called a vicious public relations campaign against the kingdom, then ruthlessly suppressed known militants — not least because the monarchy itself was a main target of Al Qaeda.
  
  Striking a balance was almost always Abdullah’s preference. He strove to keep oil prices high, but not so high that they prompted consumers to abandon petroleum, then hedged his bets by investing billions in solar energy research. In 2008, he convened a meeting of world religious leaders to promote tolerance, but held it in Madrid rather than Saudi Arabia, where the public practice of religions other than Islam is outlawed.
  
  Yet Abdullah could, and did, take strong positions. He denounced the American-led invasion of Iraq as “an illegal occupation”; proposed a comprehensive peace plan for the Middle East that included recognition of Israel by Arab nations; and urged in a secret cable that the United States attack Iran, Saudi Arabia’s great rival. “Cut off the head off the snake,” he said.
  
  His kingdom’s interests always came first. Although American companies discovered and developed the Saudi oil fields, he cut deals with Russian, Chinese and European petroleum companies. He made it clear that the world’s energy appetites mattered less than Saudi Arabia’s future.
  
  A Rigorous Upbringing
  
  Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud was born in Riyadh in 1924 into a vast, complicated family. His father, Abdul Aziz, had as many as 22 wives.
  
  Abdul Aziz, whose ancestors founded a precursor to the present Saudi state in 1744, chose his wives partly to secure alliances with other Arabian tribes. Abdullah’s mother, Fahda bint Asi al-Shuraim, was a daughter of the chief of the Shammar, whose influence extended into Syria, Iraq and Jordan.
  
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  Abdullah was Fahda’s only son. She also had two daughters.
  
  King Abdul Aziz was not an indulgent father to his dozens of sons. He was quoted as saying, “I train my own children to walk barefoot, to rise two hours before dawn, to eat but little, to ride horses bareback.”
  
  Continue reading the main storyContinue reading the main storyontinue reading the main storyWhen the young Abdullah once neglected to offer his seat to a guest, Abdul Aziz sentenced him to three days in prison.
  
  Abdullah, who overcame a stutter, was educated in religion, Arab literature and science by Islamic scholars at the royal court. From the Bedouin nomads, he learned traditional ways, including horsemanship and desert warfare. In 1962, he was appointed commander of the National Guard, which draws recruits from the Bedouin tribes, protects the king and acts as a counterweight to the army.
  
  Four of Abdullah’s half brothers preceded him to the throne.
  
  King Khalid appointed Abdullah as second deputy prime minister in 1975. In 1982, Fahd, Khalid’s successor, named him deputy prime minister and crown prince.
  
  After Fahd’s stroke, Abdullah ran the government at first as regent. Political pressures later forced the removal of the regent title, but Abdullah remained the effective decision-maker until assuming the throne in 2005. He refused to sign any official papers with his own name as long as his stricken brother lived. Fahd died on Aug. 1, 2005.
  
  One of King Abdullah’s first official acts was to pardon two Libyans accused of plotting to kill him, a result of Egypt’s engineering a reconciliation between the two nations. He also pardoned three Saudi academics who were in prison for urging the kingdom to adopt a constitutional monarchy.
  
  He went on to establish job-training programs to help ease severe unemployment among educated young Saudis, to develop long-wastednatural gas as a commodity that could be exported, and to bring Saudi Arabia into the World Trade Organization. He became the first Saudi head of state to meet a pope, Benedict XVI, in 2007.
  
  Although he reaffirmed his kingdom’s longstanding alliance with the United States, tensions arose with events. Abdullah refused, for instance, to permit American bases on Saudi territory for the invasion of Iraq in 2003, something he had allowed in the first Gulf War.
  
  ‘For the Greater Good’
  
  The king also grappled with domestic crises. The deaths of 15 girls in a dormitory fire in Mecca in 2002 caused an international uproar when it was learned that the religious police had not let them escape because they were not properly dressed. Furious, the king dismissed the head of women’s education.
  
  In 2007, he pardoned a teenage girl who had been sentenced to six months in jail and 100 lashes after being raped. She was convicted of being found in a car alone with a man who was not her relative, a crime in Saudi law.
  
  Though Abdullah made it clear that he thought the girl was guilty, pleasing the religious authorities, he pardoned her, he said, “for the greater good.”
  
  In line with Islamic law, Abdullah kept no more than four wives at once, and was married at least 13 times, said Joseph Kechichian, who studies the royal family as a senior fellow at the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies in Riyadh.
  
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  Abdullah fathered at least seven sons, nearly all of whom have occupied powerful positions as provincial governors and officers in the national guard, Dr. Kechichian said. Of his 15 known daughters, one is a prominent physician, and another has appeared on television to advocate women’s rights.
  
  Abdullah may have resembled his warrior father, but he had a modern sensibility. A diplomatic cable revealed by WikiLeaks in 2010 said that he had suggested to an American counterterrorism official that electronic chips be implanted in detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
  
  He said it had worked with horses and falcons, to which the American replied, “Horses don’t have good lawyers.”
  
  Correction: January 22, 2015
  An earlier version of a photo caption misstated the timing of Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud’s ascension to the throne. It was Friday, not Thursday.

Pakistan lost another friend. In OIC conference in Pakistan after finishing his speech he said " Pakistan zindabad"
Farewell friend/brother and may Allah forgive you and may Allah open gates of heaven upon you