Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday expressed Pakistan’s full solidarity and support for Saudi Arabia amid recent regional escalation and appreciated the country’s “exemplary” patience and restraint stating that Saudi leadership in the current crisis was a “source of strength” for all peace loving people in the Kingdom and beyond. The prime minister, during the […]
Mideast
Energy targets in crosshairs as Mideast war escalates
Iran threatened on Sunday to attack key infrastructure across the Middle East if US President Donald Trump follows through on his vow to “obliterate” the Islamic republic’s power plants unless the Strait of Hormuz swiftly reopens. Iran’s defiant response came after its missiles slipped through air defences and struck two towns in southern Israel including […]
In Bahrain, US to launch economic part of Mideast peace plan amid skepticism
The first stage of President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan will be launched on Tuesday at a conference the White House touts as a bid to begin drumming up $50 billion in investment but which Palestinians deride as an “economy first” approach doomed to fail. The two-day international meeting in Bahrain, led by Trump’s […]