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Both Saudi Arabia & Iran ‘Shot-Down’ Pakistan’s Proposal On Kashmir; Reaffirm Support To India​

Once again, Pakistan has failed to place its rhetoric on Kashmir among its “key allies” after Saudi Arabia and Iran refused permission to Pakistan’s missions in their country for holding public events to observe 27 October as a Black Day.

Islamabad has been observing the day of Jammu and Kashmir’s accession to India as Black Day after 1947.

Pakistan’s failed attempt at capturing the entire Jammu and Kashmir with the attack by tribals from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa had resulted in the Maharaja of Kashmir reaching out to India and seeking its military help in 1947. The attack, in which the invaders had reached Baramulla, was turned into the first war between India and Pakistan.

The Islamic country has been observing Black Day on 27 October every year to mark the takeover of Jammu & Kashmir by India in 1947 on that day.

A report in Hindustan Times has said that Pakistan’s embassy in Iran had proposed holding an event at Tehran University to observe Black Day but to Islamabad’s surprise, Tehran refused the permission to hold the event. Later, the embassy conducted a webinar, as it had in August during the one-year anniversary of the abrogation of Article 370.

Pakistan had made a similar attempt in Saudi Arabia, but was reportedly told not to hold the event and restrict it to the consulate in Riyadh and keep any activities ‘low-key.’ Experts believe that Pakistan’s growing ties with Turkey are a factor in Saudi Arabia and Iran’s changing behaviour towards Islamabad.

Ever since the abrogation of Article 370 in August 2019, which stripped Jammu and Kashmir of its special status under the Indian constitution, Pakistan has been making relentless efforts to bring the attention of international players to the matter.

Prime Minister Imran Khan has repeatedly accused the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government in India of genocide in Kashmir and discriminating against them.

However, Pakistan’s efforts have failed to see the light of the day even with China’s support, which had raised the matter in United Nations Security Council in August again. Reportedly, all the countries in the council termed the issue of Jammu and Kashmir as a bilateral matter between India and Pakistan, which doesn’t require international intervention.

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Islamabad’s keenness to take up Jammu and Kashmir as a matter of Islamic importance has resulted in its deteriorating ties with Saudi Arabia as well.

Pakistan was constantly requesting Saudi Arabia to convene a meeting on Kashmir at the 57-member council of Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) but Riyadh continued to refuse.

The bilateral ties received a blow when Pakistan’s Foreign Affairs Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi slammed Saudi Arabia for not organizing a meeting to discuss Kashmir and threatened to do the same on its own.

Riyadh reverted to Pakistan’s threat with the demand for the repayment of a loan of $1 billion, which was part of a $ 6.2 billion package given to Islamabad in November 2018. Saudi Arabia also conveyed to the Imran Khan government that fresh loans or oil supply will no longer be given to Pakistan.

Saudi Arabia has been the leader of the Islamic world but Turkey has been vehemently fighting to snatch the leadership role. Pakistan, which has long shared deep political, cultural, historical and economic ties with Saudi Arabia, is now changing its stance amid the changing geopolitical scenarios.

In December 2019, Saudi Arabia had raised concerns over the Malaysian Prime Minister’s statement that the Muslim countries at the Kuala Lumpur Summit would form a new platform to replace the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) which “had failed to deliver the goods on issues faced by the Muslims across the world.”

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India’s Role​

Another factor for Saudi Arabia and Iran refraining from supporting Pakistan’s rhetoric on Kashmir could be India’s influence in the region. The strengthening relations between Riyadh and New Delhi are visible with heavy investments by Saudi Arabia in India.

Under its vision 2030, Riyadh has termed India as its strategic partner. India’s influence in the Gulf region was starkly visible when India was invited to the Foreign Ministers’ meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) States in Abu Dhabi in 2019.

After deteriorated relations with Saudi Arabia, Pakistan had turned to Iran to build a stronger ally in the Islamic world. “We have good relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran as compared to past and they need to be further strengthened,” said Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan had said.

Pakistan also supported Iran by calling out restrictions imposed by the US. However, India’s good ties with Iran may have overshadowed Pakistan’s efforts to cozy up to the Shia-dominated country.

In spite of the $400 billion deal between Iran and China, India has maintained that its relations with Tehran “stand on their own footing and are independent of its relations with third countries”.

Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh had visited Iran in September. While the details of the meeting were not revealed, the ministry had said that the two countries reiterated maintaining strong “bilateral ties”.
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Both Saudi Arabia & Iran 'Shot-Down' Pakistan’s Proposal On Kashmir; Reaffirm Support To India

Once again, Pakistan has failed to place its rhetoric on Kashmir among its “key allies” after Saudi Arabia and Iran refused permission to Pakistan’s missions in their country for holding public events to observe 27 October as a Black Day. Islamabad has been observing the day of Jammu and...
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Israel Wants Pakistan’s Nuclear Teeth Broken & Saudi Arabia Could Land The First Punch​

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US’ topmost ally in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has given a very conflicting message to Turkey, as well as to Qatar, for a ‘handshake’ as it organized the G20 summit. It was, in fact, quite warranted as finally the iron curtains of secrecy between KSA and Israel had to be unveiled, and there might be a ‘brewing reaction’ to it.
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Hence, KSA gave into extending the ‘hand of friendship’ to Turkey and Qatar, whereas the reality is that KSA has already cost billions of USD to Turkey by its boycott of Turkish goods, and also did KSA had planned an attack on Qatar with the help of UAE and Bahrain. The ground attack was disallowed by Trump, but which, had made the then US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson cost his job.

KSA after playing a pivotal role in UAE and Bahrain ‘normalizing’ their relations with Israel, has finally come out in the open, as it has come to light, that KSA crown prince MBS secretly met Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu, along with Mike Pompeo, reported Israeli newspaper Haaretz on November 23, 2020.

This has put to rest all the speculations that maybe even before the US president Donald Trump walks-out, KSA would accept Israel, which perhaps, Trump wishes to carry this sobriquet as last of his achievements.
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Mohamad bi Salman at the G20 Riyadh Summit

But, the possibility of working out the modalities of a war on Iran as a joint venture of the US, Israel and KSA, has surely grown. India for that matter is firmly with Israel and the US along with KSA, more particularly so, after it had to bow out of the Chabahar project from Iran.

Iran and China, and with it Pakistan, is now the other bloc. KSA denies the meeting but The Wall Street Journal on November 24, 2020, confirmed it.

The world polity is very dangerously poised and there are all signs of a world war getting to its near possibility. Turkey is pitched against Greece, UAE is lobbying against Turkey and cozying up with Greece.
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Israel and India are supporting Greece. KSA has long been against Iran alongside Israel while against Turkey too, while China-Pakistan are lined-up against India, and the US is locking horns with China in the South China Sea and supporting Taiwan against China.

The war between Armenia and Azerbaijan has just ended after a ceasefire brokered by the Russian president Vladimir Putin on November 23, 2020, who has also refused to recognize Biden as the new president of the United States. Thus, throwing a reality, that even if Biden makes it to office, he would not be called a full president by Russia, and may be by others too.

Biden, it is quite understood by the way of his politics, is going to wreak wars, and he has particularly vowed not to supply weapons to KSA, in the wake of the allegations of the involvement of KSA crown prince MBS in the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.

Therefore, a US withdrawal from Afghanistan or fresh deployment in Iran is getting near. But what is most intriguing is that while MBS, Netanyahu and Pompeo met, there was an attack on KSA’s biggest oil giant Aramco by Houthis rebels from Yemen, on November 23, 2020. The timing was important. The act has again thrown a big question as to how Houthis have become so technologically advanced?

Is Iran arming them as is widely considered? Or maybe any investigative journalist might unravel it that Israel is supplying it through its proxies? Or is Israel doing it and getting it claimed by Houthis with Houthis not even getting a whiff of it?

The same way Blackwater does it in Afghanistan and Deash comes to claim it. Of course, the attack has opened new avenues for Israeli Dome missile defense technology for KSA to safeguard its boundaries after it had refused to buy Russian S-400 out of pressure from the US.

There is a lot of churning in world polity as Biden will be considered weak both externally, as well as internally, and to bolster the US image a war, therefore, would be a must. While China, which has challenged US superpower status, has given an offer to KSA to change its oil payments from Petro Dollars to Petro Yuans, which KSA is very likely to spurn, as it only plays to the tunes of the US for the last 70 years.

It is also very likely since MBS’ love affair with Israel has gone public that KSA would now openly threaten Pakistan to take back its workforce, and maybe, influence the Saudi-sponsored 56-nation Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC) to accept Kashmir as a part of India.

MBS may also force OIC to forsake Gilgit-Baltistan as Pakistan’s fifth province, which is the gateway of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and which the US and India want to get killed at every cost.

As for Israel, it finds Pakistan as the only Muslim state with nuclear teeth, and through KSA it wants Pakistan’s jaws broken, to the ultimate advantage of India. How China will relate to this is for the world to see.
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Israel Wants Pakistan's Nuclear Teeth Broken & Saudi Arabia Could Land The First Punch

US’ topmost ally in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has given a very conflicting message to Turkey, as well as to Qatar, for a ‘handshake’ as it organized the G20 summit. It was, in fact, quite warranted as finally the iron curtains of secrecy between KSA and Israel had to be...
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DRDO & Directorate of Defence R&D, Israel sign Bilateral Innovation Agreement for development of dual use technologies​

Key highlights:


  • Agreement to promote innovation in startups & MSMEs of both countries for development of dual use technologies
  • Startups & industry to bring out next generation technologies & products in areas such as Drones, Robotics & Artificial Intelligence
  • Development efforts to be jointly funded by DRDO & DDR&D, Israel

As a tangible demonstration of the growing Indo–Israeli technological cooperation, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Directorate of Defence Research and Development (DDR&D), Ministry of Defence, Israel have entered into a Bilateral Innovation Agreement (BIA) to promote innovation and accelerated R&D in startups and MSMEs of both countries for the development of dual use technologies. The agreement was signed between and Secretary, Department of Defence, R&D & Chairman DRDO Dr G Satheesh Reddy and Head of DDR&D, Israel BG (Retd) Dr Daniel Gold in New Delhi on November 09, 2021.


Under the agreement, startups and industry of both countries will work together to bring out next generation technologies and products in the areas such as Drones, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Quantum technology, Photonics, Biosensing, Brain-Machine Interface, Energy Storage, Wearable Devices, Natural Language Processing, etc. Products and technologies will be customised to meet unique requirements of both the countries. The development efforts will be jointly funded by DRDO and DDR&D, Israel. The technologies developed under BIA will be available to both countries for their domestic applications.


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DRDO & Directorate of Defence R&D, Israel sign Bilateral Innovation Agreement for development of dual use technologies

Key highlights: Agreement to promote innovation in startups & MSMEs of both countries for dev
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