Recently Pakistan and Saudi Arabia entered a defense pact that stipulated that any attack on Pakistan would be considered an attack on Saudi Arabia and vice versa. Considering the deteriorating climate in the Middle East this pact has more than a symbolic significance. Pakistan is the only country in the Arab/Muslim world to possess nuclear weapons.

The reason for such a pact appears to be unreliability of the United States in the eyes of its partners in the Middle East. Israel’s recent bombardment in the capital of Qatar underlines the problem with American foreign policy. Qatar is host to the biggest American military base in the Middle East. Qatar was also facilitating negotiations between Israel and Hamas for a cease-fire in Gaza. These negotiations were being carried out at the behes

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