Hujjat-ul-Islam Syed Jawad Naqvi, head of the Bedari Ummat-e-Mustafa Movement and director of Jamia Urwat-ul-Wusqa in Lahore, has warned that attempts to provoke sectarian tensions in Pakistan in the name of the Two Holy Mosques could have dangerous and long-lasting consequences.
Turkey’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said recent developments in Yemen and Saudi Arabia had made it necessary to convene an emergency meeting of the “Mecca Coalition,” while efforts to institutionalize the joint defense alliance have entered their final stages.
Pakistan has called for the Strait of Hormuz to return to the conditions that existed before the latest conflict involving Iran and the United States, with Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar saying commercial vessels should be able to pass through the strategic waterway without restrictions or charges.
