. MBS was also displeased with Mr Khan’s unilateral attempt to bridge Saudi-Iran tensions. The Saudi royal jet that took Mr Khan and his personal entourage to New York was recalled on the return journey mid-air and its VIP passengers had to take a private airline on the way back. The Saudis now started to exert pressure on Pakistan not to attend the planned Islamic moot in Kuala Lumpur, compelling Mr Khan to eat humble pie. This has rankled with him.
Exactly, a year ago, India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, formally annexed and bifurcated Kashmir. By so doing, he formally repudiated the UNSC Resolutions of seven decades ago that called for a plebiscite to determine whether Kashmir would be part of Pakistan or India as determined by the Partition Formula of the parting British Raj.
Understandably, Pakistan is both irked and frustrated. Irked because there isn’t much it can do by way of responding aggressively to India. Frustrated because the, let alone the Western world, isn’t ready to condemn the Indian carnage in Kashmir. All Islamabad can do is to loudly preach to the converted at home and brandish a new map of Pakistan as some sort of territorial conquest.
Before Mr Qureshi’s calculated outburst, it was quietly revealed that Pakistan had returned USD1 billion in forex deposits toThis article originally appeared in The Friday Times on August 7, 2020.
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