Saudia, Bahrain, UAE & Egypt cut diplomatic ties with Qatar

[T-Rex]

@T-Rex Please stop using this "Bold-ing" effect as I have difficulty in reading your posts.

You have the choice to avoid reading my posts!

 

[That Guy]

Turkey would likely openly back Qatar, but it's unlikely that this will lead to open hostility. The US is likely to put a stop to this, before it gets out of hand.

Called it.

https://www.dawn.com/news/1338463/e...pproves-deployment-of-turkish-troops-to-qatar

https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/afte...ngness-to-cooperate-with-saudi-arabia.500676/

IN ALL SERIOUSNESS THOUGH, this will likely decrease the chances of conflict, as the last thing KSA wants is to start a war with Turkey against it.

You have the choice to avoid reading my posts!

I mean, he has a point, it really does strain the eyes. I wish you'd stop using it, but it's your choice.

 

[T-Rex]

Where are ISIS supporters tweeting from? Qatar not even on chart, but most supporters come from Saudi Arabia. Just sayin'
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@wanglaokan See the chart, Mr. Uighur expert!

 

[Baloch Pakistani]

Breaking News ..................... Breaking News........................

The new Map of Qatar has just been released.

 

[T-Rex]

Breaking News ..................... Breaking News........................

The new Map of Qatar has just been released.

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It must be the work of the SA camel riders and their minions!

 

[GDP Adil Khan Niazi]

Qatar is an independent country, they are a member of GCC, they are a member of United Nations but no matter what they are an independent country after all and they have the right to choose whichever country they want to enhance their relations with. Whether they enhance their ties with Iran or Yemen it is their choice. Why is Saudia so anxious and curious to forcefully put their war with other countries on other Gulf countries. Pakistan should not indulge themselves in Saudi war, in fact, I believe they should support Qatar in this situation after what Qatari Royal Family did for Mr. Nawaz Sharif. What is this Islamic Military Alliance doing? Raheel Sharif should play his part. What is Pakistan's stance on this issue ya phir Pakistan ko apna opinion denay ka haq nae ha just because k agar ham Qatar ki favor mein jaengy tu Saudia naraz hojaega aur agar Saudia ki favor mein jaengy tu Qatar aur Iran se hamary ties aur bhe buray hojaengy.


"Fasaad ki asaal jarr e Saudia ha"

 

[Zibago]

Or some might say...they are getting killed just because they overthrew elected government for sake of Iran...

I don't support killing...But IRAN IS NO ANGEL EITHER.

Both groups are wrong the issue in Yemen is Yemen,s internal affair Iran has no right to give them weapons and Saudia has no right to bomb them

On Qatar, Pakistan walks a diplomatic tightrope
Parliament expresses 'deep concern' over Gulf diplomatic rift, but government stops short of taking a side.

Asad Hashim

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• blockade and severing of ties with Qatar by several Arab states, calling for the government to help mediate in the crisis between the Gulf state and its neighbours.
  
  INSIDE STORY: What is behind the diplomatic breakdown in the Gulf?
  
  
  "This House calls upon all countries to show restraint and resolve all differences through dialogue," read a resolution passed by the lower house of parliament on Thursday.
  
  The measure came as Pakistan's foreign ministry reiterated the country's "concern" at the escalating situation - but stopped short of endorsing one side or another.
  
  "Pakistan believes in unity among Muslim countries and has made consistent and serious efforts for its promotion," Nafees Zakaria, the Pakistani foreign office spokesperson, said on Thursday.
  
  "We are therefore concerned at the situation."
  
  But Zakaria refused to comment when probed on whether Pakistan had taken any steps to mediate the crisis or was also considering severing ties with Qatar.
  
  He also had nothing to say when pressed to provide Pakistan's position on the allegations of "supporting terrorism" levelled against Qatar by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and their allies.
  
  READ MORE: All the latest updates on the Qatar diplomatic crisis
  
  Pakistan has a close economic and strategic relationship with Saudi Arabia, which is leading the calls for the blockade and severing of ties.
  
  Yet, in the past it has resisted pressure to wade into regional conflict in the Middle East.
  
  In April 2015, Pakistan's parliament voted to remain neutral in the war in Yemen, despite pressure to join a Saudi-led military alliance targeting Houthi rebels in the country.
  
  On Monday, Pakistan's foreign office indicated that it currently had no plans to sever ties with Qatar.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  What's at stake for Pakistan
  Pakistan's relationship with Saudi Arabia and the UAE is based on close diplomatic ties, but also deep economic relations.
  
  Saudi Arabia is home to more than 1.9 million Pakistanis, mostly unskilled workers, while the UAE hosts a further 1.2 million, according to government data.
  
  Qatar, a much smaller country by comparison, hosts only 115,000 Pakistani citizens.
  
  Those expatriate Pakistanis have a significant impact on their country's economy, with foreign remittances playing an important role in bolstering Pakistan's foreign exchange reserves.
  
  Analysts believe that any attempts to expel Pakistani workers or block remittances could have a major impact on Pakistan's economy.
  
  READ MORE: Five days on, five things to know about Qatar-Gulf rift
  
  Saudi Arabia tops the list of countries with the highest remittances to Pakistan, with $4.52bn in funds sent home by Pakistanis in the current fiscal year, according to Pakistan's central bank.
  
  The UAE comes in next at $3.47bn, with Qatar appearing much further down the list with only $304m in remittances.
  
  OPINION: Looking beyond the siege of Doha
  
  Saudi Arabia and the UAE are also two of Pakistan's major trading partners. The South Asian country has imported goods and services worth $5.84bn from the UAE in the current fiscal year, and a further $1.95bn from Saudi Arabia, according to the central bank.
  
  It also sold exports worth $852m and $300m to those two countries respectively.
  
  By comparison, Pakistan sold exports worth $42.6m to Qatar in the current fiscal year, while importing $864m worth of goods and services.
  
  The bulk of those imports have been in the form of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), after Pakistan signed a landmark 15-year deal with Qatar in February 2016.
  
  
  
  
  
  In addition, Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif holds close ties with the ruling families in both Saudi Arabia and Qatar. In 2000, when he fled a military coup, Sharif resided in Jeddah, a Saudi Arabian port city on the Red Sea, for eight years while in exile.
  
  The Saudi government also gave Sharif's government a grant of $1.5bn in March 2014 to help meet debt-service obligations and undertake large development projects. At the time, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar termed the grant "a gift".
  
  In more recent times, Sharif has relied heavily upon the testimony of former Qatari Prime Minister Hamad Bin Jasim Bin Jaber Al Thani as a part of his defence in an ongoing corruption investigation at the Supreme Court that could unseat him as prime minister.
  
  'If push comes to shove'
  "Of all Muslim nations, Pakistan is probably in the most difficult position," James Dorsey, a senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore and specialist on Pakistan's relations with Gulf countries, told Al Jazeera.
  
  Dorsey pointed to the appointment of Pakistan's former army chief Raheel Sharif to lead a 39-member military alliance put together by Saudi Arabia, ostensibly to combat the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) armed group, as a concession the country was forced to make after refusing to join the war in Yemen.
  
  Tehran and others have criticised the alliance as being focused more on furthering Saudi objectives against Shia-majority Iran in the region than against ISIL.
  
  READ MORE: Your questions answered about the Qatar-Gulf crisis
  
  Roughly 15 percent of Pakistan's roughly 200 million people are Shia Muslims, and the opposition at home was one of the major reasons the country did not send troops to fight the war in Yemen, according to analysts.
  
  Dorsey said the recent rift with Qatar "potentially puts Pakistan in an even tighter spot".
  
  He added: "Obviously Pakistan has a historic relationship with Saudi Arabia, and Saudis are not only very important to them [economically], but also very influential on all kinds of levels. But they also have a very close relationship with the Qataris, economically."
  
  But Dorsey argued that while the relationship with Qatar is strong, Saudi Arabia has more leverage to exert on Pakistan, if push comes to shove.
  
  "There is a lot of Saudi money going into Pakistan. When Pakistan has a financial shortage, there are two places they go: Saudi and China," he said.
  
  "There are a lot of Pakistanis working in Saudi Arabia. […] They could keep the Pakistanis and stop the remittances. And all of this would hit Pakistan quite hard."
  
  READ MORE - Qatar: 'No justification' for cutting diplomatic ties
  
  Moreover, Saudi Arabia has also embarked on a soft power campaign in Pakistan for decades, said Dorsey, whose research has tracked donations and funding trails from the Gulf kingdom to Pakistani religious organisations.
  
  "Saudi Arabia in the last four decades has waged the single largest public diplomacy campaign in history. […] That campaign was designed to further a Sunni Muslim ultraconservatism world view."
  
  Political opposition at home
  Hasan Askari Rizvi, an Islamabad-based political analyst, said it seems unlikely Pakistan would wade into this regional conflict, not least because of potential political opposition at home.
  
  Focus remains on mediation to end Qatar's diplomatic crisis
  
  
  "I don't think they will sever ties," he told Al Jazeera.
  
  "There will be domestic opposition, there will be political opposition that this is not an advisable strategy to get totally involved in a conflict in the Arab world."
  
  Rizvi's view seems borne out by Thursday's parliamentary resolution, which was moved by key leaders of the country's opposition parties.
  
  Either way, Pakistan will serve as an interesting test case for major non-Arab Muslim states around the world, both analysts said.
  
  Turkey and Iran have already come out in support of Qatar, promising food aid andsending troops to the country this week.
  
  READ MORE: Qatar's ambassador to US discusses diplomatic crisis
  
  Other countries with major Muslim populations such as Indonesia, Malaysia and Nigeria have remained largely neutral, so far.
  
  Some smaller countries, such as the island nations of Mauritius and Maldives have joined the boycott of Qatar.
  
  "A lot of the Muslim states don't want to get sucked into this," Dorsey said.
  
  "What you'll see is countries will try and muddle through this, maybe take some sort of step [to isolate Qatar], but stopping short of fully taking sides. The Saudis and Emiratis may not find that sufficient, so it remains to be seen what happens if and when [they] try to put Muslim countries against the wall."
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Hmm Aljazeera is playing games here

 

[Fenasi Kerim]

I hope for Pakistan's sake they do stay out of this, however IMO Pakistan's silence alone is a show of support to Qatar, if they were to openly approach the Qatari's, expect bombs to be going off all over Pakistan the same week.

However having said that, sometimes taking sides is better then not.....

 

[Muhammed45]

Breaking News ..................... Breaking News........................

The new Map of Qatar has just been released.

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Bro, we are not thinking about annexation of Qatar unlike Saudis, that makes them feel safe on our side.
I don't approve Qatari Emir's support for extremists in Syria and beloved holy lands of Iraq but the people of Qatar due to the huge blockade from ARAB BROTHERS LOL, is truly in danger. First of all we will do our human job in Ramazan and then inshallah will use Qatar's influence to put an end to the dirty life of extremists in Syria and Iraq.
@TheCamelGuy Qatar is coming back to us, why not saying welcome?

 

[matmat26]

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[Avicenna]

With one grand move the entire ME has been sharply divided. Whoever thought it is a true strategist.

Only question is of timing. Obviously the news of terror financing has been around since long. Why the sudden rush now? Also, this charge against Qatar cuts both ways!

Eygpte wants UN to act. KSA is not budging from its goal of total submission of Doha to KSA.

Turkey has jumped in the middle of the mess.

Iran got attacked at its seat of power in Tehran in broad day light.

Now the Kurds are joinning KSA... which is essentially an implied or even direct threat to Turkish state.

Even if this 'crisis' is solved in a couple of weeks.. the great rift that is created by this event is not going to be fixed anytime soon.

Pak must stay away from this...only option for Pak is to support all fighting parties.

However, Pak must never let Turkish Territorial Integrity to come in question at all costs. This is Imperative!

Pak must learn to show respect to those in GCC who show equal respect back and take a studied distance from those who don't.

CPEC, its completion and protection has to be the only Focus of Pak.

Buddy, look at the genius of whoever has designed this. It has to be coming from Tel Aviv or Washington. And dont think Pakistan is not a part of this eventually. The best thing is for these countries to prevent this from becoming a hot war. Man i hope this de-esclates. But the true colors of SA,UAE and Egypt have been shown. Pro-Israeli muppets. In thet is absolutely imperative for Turkey and Pakistan to remain strong. Any threat against Turkish territorial integrity is a game changer. But also, Pakistan may very well be a target for something similar eventually. Dont forget about the nuclear capability. What Israel and the West eventually want are neutered, de-militarized, ineffectual muslim nation states who perpetually fight against one another like fiefdoms. This is a NASTY NASTY move by the west. And as usual "muslim" leaderships are too stupid to see it.

This idiot chicken hawk Ralph Peters came up with several years ago. Not saying this is the acutally model but just illustrating that this line of thinking does exist in Washington. Now that Trump et al. are in charge, these anti-islamic people will be able to carry out their agenda just like the neocons did with Bush Jr.

 

[El Sidd]

Buddy, look at the genius of whoever has designed this. It has to be coming from Tel Aviv or Washington. And dont think Pakistan is not a part of this eventually. The best thing is for these countries to prevent this from becoming a hot war. Man i hope this de-esclates. But the true colors of SA,UAE and Egypt have been shown. Pro-Israeli muppets. In thet is absolutely imperative for Turkey and Pakistan to remain strong. Any threat against Turkish territorial integrity is a game changer. But also, Pakistan may very well be a target for something similar eventually. Dont forget about the nuclear capability. What Israel and the West eventually want are neutered, de-militarized, ineffectual muslim nation states who perpetually fight against one another like fiefdoms. This is a NASTY NASTY move by the west. And as usual "muslim" leaderships are too stupid to see it.

This idiot chicken hawk Ralph Peters came up with several years ago. Not saying this is the acutally model but just illustrating that this line of thinking does exist in Washington. Now that Trump et al. are in charge, these anti-islamic people will be able to carry out their agenda just like the neocons did with Bush Jr.

I just have an issue with the Balochistan part. Rest sounds fine and dandy to me.

This Ralph Peter guy can sit and talk with us on that.

 

[Mangus Ortus Novem]

Buddy, look at the genius of whoever has designed this. It has to be coming from Tel Aviv or Washington. And dont think Pakistan is not a part of this eventually. The best thing is for these countries to prevent this from becoming a hot war. Man i hope this de-esclates. But the true colors of SA,UAE and Egypt have been shown. Pro-Israeli muppets. In thet is absolutely imperative for Turkey and Pakistan to remain strong. Any threat against Turkish territorial integrity is a game changer. But also, Pakistan may very well be a target for something similar eventually. Dont forget about the nuclear capability. What Israel and the West eventually want are neutered, de-militarized, ineffectual muslim nation states who perpetually fight against one another like fiefdoms. This is a NASTY NASTY move by the west. And as usual "muslim" leaderships are too stupid to see it.

This idiot chicken hawk Ralph Peters came up with several years ago. Not saying this is the acutally model but just illustrating that this line of thinking does exist in Washington. Now that Trump et al. are in charge, these anti-islamic people will be able to carry out their agenda just like the neocons did with Bush Jr.

My Friend,


It does appear the Col. Kurtz has entered the Grand ME Theatre... first he was only active in Iraq, Syria and Pak through hellhole of AF.

My, friend Elliot did saw the Truth long before I was born. Kurtz loves to be the beat of Heart of Darkness.

I fear the current farce of Qatar episode is but a smokescreen. Long game Kurtz wishes to play... last game really. If he can't succeed then its time to pronounce, Mista Kurtz he dead!

The gates of forts are mostly opened from inside, less costly. Pak elites are the biggest threat to Pak State and People.

The maps are indeed one more variation of the old imperial project. Nothing new under the Sun. All stories have been told. Only thing left is settings and descriptions.

We must wish for Peace for our Shared Humanity.

Regards,

SPF

 

[Avicenna]

I just have an issue with the Balochistan part. Rest sounds fine and dandy to me.

This Ralph Peter guy can sit and talk with us on that.

why would you be ok with this?

 

[El Sidd]

why would you be ok with this?

Doesn't concern Pakistan apart from that Balochistan bit.