Amid the fresh chill in the India-Pakistan ties, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Saud Al-Faisal will visit New Delhi on a brief visit on Friday, during which New Delhi is expected to urge the influential Arab nation to use its influence on Islamabad to end cross-border terrorism.Al-Faisal will hold detailed talks with External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee during which the Indian side is expected to share evidence about the involvement of Pakistan-based elements.
Will hold talks on the controversial 'Nitaqat' law, energy security and counter-terrorism cooperation.
Expressing concern over growing dangerous trends in Pakistan, Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Prince Saud al Faisal on Sunday said that its political leadership should unite to fight the menace of terrorism.
After taking the western world's help, India is now turning to the Arab world to build pressure on Pakistan to act against terror utfits and the first to be approached will be Saudi Arabia, grabbing the opportunity of Prince Saud Al-Faisal's one-day visit to Delhi on Friday.
'Honoured to call on HRH Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Jeddah this evening. Conveyed the warm greetings of PM @narendramodi.'
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'The attacks made clear to all the Gulf States that Pakistan was the nursery and sanctuary of extremist violence and that this violence threatened all the countries in the region.'
Further deterioration of the US-Saudi relationship will have geo-economic and geopolitical effects, says Nitin Pai.
'Naik is an outcome of an image-centric Islam, which is linked to the technological changes introduced by new media.' 'English educated upper middle class Muslims embraced Naik's image-centric Islam in the 1990s.' 'Television converted him into a religious object.'
