![]() In July 2013, General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi overthrew President Mohamed Morsi, ending Egypt’s brief experiment with (an albeit flawed) democratic rule. The Arab Spring that began in 2011 devolved into an Arab Winter in the backdrop of an Iran- Saudi cold war. Riyadh gave him refuge in 2000, after he was deposed and put on trial by military ruler Gen Pervez Musharraf.Īlas, reality has complicated expectations of a return to a smooth relationship with the Gulf Arab states.īy 2013, the Middle East had become the setting for multiple vortices of violence. ![]() It also could be said that he owed his life to them. Riyadh, it is said, kept President Asif Ali Zardari at a distance. When Nawaz Sharif became prime minister for the third time in 2013, there was an expectation that Pakistan’s relationship with the Saudis would return to normal. ![]() Last month, with the Saudi and Emirati-led efforts to isolate Qatar, and the militant Islamic State (IS) group’s attacks in Tehran, new fronts opened in the Greater Middle East war, making Pakistan’s regional balancing act even more difficult.
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