[DAWN] Pak politicians' call for the government to remain neutral on the escalating crisis in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
has evoked a strong response from the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
"The vague and contradictory stands of Pakistain and
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
are an absolute proof that Arab security -- from Libya to Yemen -- is the responsibility of none but Arab countries," UAE's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Dr Anwar Mohammed Gargash said.
As quoted by renowned Emirati newspaper Khaleej Times, Garhash warned Pakistain of having to pay a "heavy price" for taking on what he called an "ambiguous stand". He added that Pakistain should take a clear position "in favour of its strategic relations with the six-nation Arab Gulf cooperation Council".