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Days aft UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan’s sojourn to New Delhi, Abu Dhabi has reportedly abandoned its woody with Pakistan for the absorption and operations of Islamabad International Airport.According to a study by Pakistan regular Express Tribune, the program was shelved aft the UAE failed to place a section spouse to whom airdrome operations could beryllium outsourced, contempt showing archetypal interest.Citing sources, the study said the deadlock betwixt the 2 countries emerged owed to repeated delays by the UAE, pursuing which it yet mislaid involvement successful the process.“The Pakistani broadside had sought a wide effect from the UAE by sending a last telephone letter.
In response, the UAE conveyed that it was inactive incapable to corroborate immoderate nominated entity,” sources told Express Tribune.Although the illness of the woody was not attributed to governmental reasons, it comes amid a standoff betwixt Saudi Arabia and the UAE implicit enactment to rival groups successful Yemen.Pakistan’s souring ties with UAEInterestingly, Pakistan has entered into a defence woody with Riyadh and is seeking to signifier what has been described arsenic an “Islamic NATO” with Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
In September 2025, Saudi Arabia signed a defence statement with Pakistan that considers an onslaught connected 1 arsenic aggression against both.The UAE had been among Pakistan’s largest trading partners and a cardinal root of remittances, with thousands of Pakistanis moving crossed assorted sectors. However, relations betwixt the 2 countries person cooled owed to information concerns, licensing controversies and ageing infrastructure successful Pakistan.New Delhi–Abu Dhabi tiesMeanwhile, UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed visited New Delhi earlier this period and held delegation-level talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.Several agreements were signed during the sojourn successful the fields of defence, space, energy, supercomputing and nutrient safety. Prime Minister Modi and Mohamed bin Zayed besides reviewed the afloat spectrum of bilateral practice and agreed that the India–UAE Comprehensive Strategic Partnership has not lone matured but is present entering a much ambitious and multidimensional phase.Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said agreements were signed successful the areas of strategical defence partnership, associated initiatives connected abstraction infrastructure improvement and commercialisation, and the UAE’s information successful the improvement of a peculiar concern portion successful Dholera, Gujarat.
