Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, recently, threatened that if the OIC headed by Saudi Arabia did not convene a foreign ministers' meeting on Kashmir, Prime Minister Imran Khan would hold it on his own with his allies among the Islamic nations.
A decade long friendship between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia is seemingly coming to an ends with the latter stopping the loan and the oil supply. Pakistan was also made to pay back $1 billion to Saudi Arabia, which was part of a $6.2 billion inlays and an oil credit facility amounting to $3.2 billion. The deals were signed when Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman was on his Pakistan visit last year.
Saudi Arabia has halted oil on loan provision for Pakistan after Prime Minister Imran Khan government threatened to split the Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC) over Kashmir.
Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund withdrew the bid to buy Premier League club Newcastle United.
Muslim pilgrims, donning face masks and moving in small groups after days in isolation, began arriving at Islam’s holiest site in Mecca on Wednesday for the start of a historically unique and scaled-down hajj experience reshaped by the coronavirus pandemic.
Saudi Arabia's decision to hold a "very limited" hajj is fraught with political and economic peril and comes after several Muslim nations pulled out of the ritual that forms one of the main pillars of Islam. The hajj -- a must for able-bodied Muslims at least once in their lifetime -- could be a major source of the contagious outbreak, as millions of pilgrims would be offering prayers within enclosed religious sites.
Saudi Arabia on Monday announced a series of measures to help prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus during the annual Haj pilgrimage scheduled to take place later this month.
A Saudi official said Tuesday that the hajj pilgrimage, which usually draws up to 2.5 million Muslims from all over the world, will only see at the most a few thousand pilgrims next month due to concerns over the spread of the coronavirus.
Saudi authorities have closed down 39 mosques in the Kingdom after coronavirus infections were suspected among worshippers or those in charge of the sites, state-media reported.
Saudi Arabia on Thursday started easing a five-day nationwide lockdown imposed during the festival of Eid amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mosques in Saudi Arabia will re-open for Friday prayers this week as the country prepares to relax the lockdown measures in place to check the spread of COVID-19
The family of slain Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi announced Friday they have forgiven his Saudi killers, giving legal reprieve to the five government agents who'd been sentenced to death for an operation that cast a cloud of suspicion over the kingdom's crown prince.
Saudi Arabia on Tuesday reported the first death in the country from coronavirus and a total of 205 new cases, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 767.
Saudi Arabia on Thursday suspended their five daily prayers and the weekly Friday prayer outside the walls of the two holy mosques in Makkah and Madinah in a bid to curd the spreading of the novel coronavirus.
Two people close to the royal family said on Saturday that the two princes were under arrest for not supporting Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
Saudi Arabia on Monday suspended travel to and from nine countries including the UAE .Travel is also suspended to and from Kuwait, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Italy, South Korea and Syria.
Saudi Arabia has released photos of King Salman carrying out his royal duties after theories emerged on his death and a possible coup attempt. The speculation began after the arrest of two senior princes.
Large energy consumers, including India and China, may head for an oil bonanza with the world's largest oil producer Saudi Arabia looking to ramp up production to well above 10 million barrels from next month
Twitter activist and Saudi whisleblower Mujtahid has claimed that King Salman of Saudi Arabia is most probably dead or is currently on his deathbed, an Iranian media report said.
First positive case of coronavirus has been reported from Saudi Arabia. As per state media, the infected person had arrived from Iran via Bahrain. Iran has reported a significant rise in the cases of coronavirus. Earlier on Monday, a close aide to Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khomenei died of coronavirus.
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