Is Pakistan moving out from under Saudi Arabia's orbit? Opinion | Kamal Alam
Imran Khan is clearly going against the grain and trying to mend ties with Tehran as both he and the COAS realise Pakistan cannot afford hostile relations with Iran. So can Imran stem the downward trajectory of relations with Iran?To say that Pakistan and Iran tensions are new would be foolhardy; tensions have now existed for almost four decades.
Before 1979, Iran had even threatened to attack India if it did not seize its offensive against Pakistan in the 1971 war, and Iran had previously been one of the very few countries that physically supported Pakistan in its wars against India. Asadollah Alam, a former senior official in the Shah’s time talks about Iranians support to Pakistan in some detail in his books,However as the Shah exited, it also coincided with Pakistan’s increased involvement with the Saudis in the war in Afghanistan.
The war in Afghanistan brought the two erstwhile allies at loggerheads, and this peaked when the Pakistan-backedIranian diplomats during the 1990s. Since the 1990s Pakistan and Iranian interests have been divergent, and the tensest issues have revolved around the fate of Afghanistan and the two countries’ Baloch insurgencies, both of whom have played the blame game over the last three years in particular.
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