Barbed wire, security check-posts, questioning by the security personnel asking for proof of identities – one might be forgiven for thinking it is an entry point to the beseiged Gaza strip in Palestine. But this is Mariabad—the Hazara locality in Quetta, Pakistan. The sectarian violence, bomb blasts, targeted killings caused fear in the city have […]
17SharesIn a time where relations between countries are in flux and major realignments are the new normal, Pakistan made a foreign policy move that still surprises the observer. Some form of close relationship between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia was taken as a given – until this past week. What began as Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood […]
Churchill said it of Russia but in the current geopolitical environment in the Middle East, it is quite apt to repeat it about Saudi Arabia: that it is “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” Saudi Arabia’s foreign policy in the recent past has been confusing, for lack of a better word. Gone […]
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