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Pakistan's Asim Munir, Turkiye's Selçuk Bayraktaroğlu, and Saudi Arabia's Fayyadh Al-Ruwaili held urgent talks in Riyadh under the Makkah Alliance amid escalating regional security threats.

Pakistan's courts are already ordering what Johnson demands. The man who slashed Britain's aid to Pakistan now wants to use "our leverage" to overrule its courts. Everything else in his Daily Mail column is wrong, half-told or left out.

"Pakistan stands with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia diplomatically and physically," the Pakistan military spokesman said this week, pausing to underline the second word himself. "We will go to any extent."

پاکستان کسی بھی جارحیت کے خلاف سعودی عرب کے دفاع کیلئے کسی بھی حد تک جائے گا۔ پاکستان عملی و سفارتی طور پر سعودی عرب کے ساتھ کھڑا ہے۔ سعودی عرب کی سلامتی اور مکہ و مدینہ کے تحفظ کیلئے پاکستانی عزم غیر مشروط ہے۔ احمد شریف چوہدری

High-profile absences and early departures cast a shadow over Narendra Modi's showcase BRICS gathering in New Delhi. Brazil's Lula skipped it entirely, Saudi Arabia's crown prince never attended, the UAE's Crown Prince left before dinner, and Xi Jinping disappeared before the evening began.