OIC: Eagle or Ostrich?
Cowardice covered under the garb of diplomacy has been used by almost all Muslim countries since the elimination of Turkish Khilafat.
They are just Ostrichs cowardly hidding their heads in the sand & kissing the AS* of the Israel and US Eagles
DARZKKG
An emergency summit of Arab and Islamic country leaders was held in Doha on 15 September 2025, which condemned Israel’s “cowardly” attack on Hamas leaders in the Qatari capital, but the participants made no promises of concrete action. The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)’s pledge to “activate a joint defence mechanism” may have been the most actionable result of the summit, which was opened by Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, who called the Israeli bombing “blatant, treacherous, and cowardly”. Qatar’s frustration and disappointment can be gauged from the fact that it has the largest American military base in the Arab world, and gifted billions of dollars’ worth Flying Palace to POTUS Trump and purchased trillions of dollars’ worth of military hardware from the USA in the recent past. Besides, Qatar continued to play as a messenger and host for fetching diplomatic outcome in favour of USA and allies’ military misadventures in Afghanistan and in the other ME countries including Palestine; and yet the American security umbrella failed to protect its sovereignty against unbridled Israeli air raids and bombing in Qatar. Quite obviously Qatar must have hoped to present a united response to Israel’s attack but leaders offered different views about what to do, and the group agreed to take only minimal action. Obviously, the West’s strong influence and significant differences among the nations blunted any likely attempt at real military cooperation.
NOTE: The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) is an intergovernmental military alliance in Eurasia consisting of six post-Soviet states: Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan.
IMCTC was an intergovernmental military alliance of 43 Muslim-majority countries with a joint operations centre in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, launched in 2015 and 2017 and commanded by a former Pakistan Army chief.
Muslim Military Alliance (MMA), with headquarters based in Islamabad, Pakistan; converting IMCTC into a potent NATO-like alliance, in which all OIC countries must have representation with significant contributions from Iran, Türkiye, Egypt, KSA, Indonesia, Malaysia and Bangladesh.
Saleem Qamar Butt
The writer is a retired senior army officer with experience in international relations, military diplomacy and analysis of geo-political and strategic security issues.
Strong condemnations came from countries like Malaysia, Türkiye, Pakistan and Iran.
Meanwhile, the nations that have diplomatic recognition deals with Israel were reluctant to sever those ties.
Ironically, Monday, 15 September was also the fifth anniversary of the signing by Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates of the Abraham Accords that marked their formal recognition of Israel.
The best statement came from Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim who said, “Condemnations will not stop the missiles. Declarations will not free Palestine. Severe, punitive actions must be put in place.”
Israel, which invaded Gaza in response to Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack, has retaliated against the militant group and other members of Iran’s so-called Axis of Resistance elsewhere, including in Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and now Qatar. That’s fuelled wider anger among Mideast nations already enraged by the deaths of more than 64,000 Palestinians during the continuing total decimation of Gaza and genocide of Palestinian Muslims with complete impunity and disregard to internal laws, UNO calls, worldwide protests against Israeli brutalities and mere lip service by the OIC. Hence, the latest air raid on Qatar should have contributed to growing concern that the U.S.’ commitment and heavy presence to protect Gulf Arab states is neither intended nor directed, but in fact it only ensures the unchallenged compliance to American and allies’ diktat. The mass killings of Muslims and overt and covert military and intelligence operations in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Sudan, Syria, Yemen, Lebanon and now in Gaza Palestine, has been happening without significant joint military retaliation. If American and allies supported holocaust and annihilation in Gaza with most destructive weapons, besides using starvation as a weapon of war is not terrorism, what else is? Will it lead to conversion of IMCTC into a NATO-like potent OIC military alliance?
IMCTC is an intergovernmental military alliance of 43 Muslim-majority countries with a joint operations centre in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, launched in 2015 and 2017 and commanded by a former Pakistan Army chief.
The chances look bleak for such a realisation with Western-brought-up and gilded lifestyles-loving rulers and indulgent public. Almost all Arab states are busy in senseless competition of constructing bigger, larger, taller, more innovative and opulent palaces, towers, shopping malls, hotels, amusement parks, residential paradises; and Jews’ synagogues, churches and Hindu temples; hugging, kissing and making the killing foes stronger and richer. Whom to blame and what is the hope?
Unfortunately, cowardice covered under the garb of diplomacy has been used by almost all Muslim countries since the elimination of Turkish Khilafat, leading to an ostrich and dovish approach instead of readopting the lost wolf, tiger and eagle-like individual and collective characters.
Alhamdulillah, Pakistan Armed Forces are strongest among the Muslim states with effective nuclear deterrence and counter-strike capability in place. Recently, the whole world witnessed its manifestation when Pakistan Armed Forces gave a jaw-breaking response to Indian air raids on Pakistan from 7 to 10 May 2025; and the Indian attempt to copycat Israel with intelligence, technological and drones support backfired with multifaceted heavy backlash. One must not forget the Chinese consistent support to Pakistan and American blunder of betting on India as a strategic partner in Asia.
It is a decisive moment. Pakistan should take the lead in forming a strong Muslim Military Alliance (MMA), with headquarters based in Islamabad, Pakistan; converting IMCTC into a potent NATO-like alliance, in which all OIC countries must have representation with significant contributions from Iran, Türkiye, Egypt, KSA, Indonesia, Malaysia and Bangladesh. Rich Muslim states should share the major economic burden.
The proposed MMA should align closely with the Security Forum of SCO (China) and CSTO (Russia). United we stand, divided we fall!
ISLAMABAD – When Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman put their pens to the Strategic Mutual Defense Agreement , they did more than sign another piece of diplomatic paperwork. They upgraded a friendship into an iron-clad security partnership.
For decades, Islamabad quietly supplied training teams and advisers to Riyadh. Those efforts protected the flow of pilgrims and reassured investors that the Kingdom’s security was more than a solo act. Now the relationship is on paper and out in the open. If either country faces external attack, both will respond together.
Three things make this a watershed. First, it locks Pakistan, a nuclear-armed nation with one of the world’s largest Muslim armies, into the Gulf’s security equation. That reassurance allows Saudi planners to think longer term about economic diversification and mega projects like NEOM, knowing a dependable partner has its back.
Second, the pact widens Saudi Arabia’s circle of reliable allies at a moment when the regional landscape is unsettled and Washington’s future posture feels less predictable. Rather than replace old alliances, Riyadh is building extra layers of insurance.
Third, the deal offers Pakistan strategic and financial breathing room. Closer defense work often leads to new training contracts, technology transfers, and soft loans. For a cash-strapped Islamabad, those opportunities carry real weight.
Critics may still ask what happens during a real crisis. Yet for now, the agreement signals shared confidence that joint strength deters trouble before it starts. In practical terms, that may be the pact’s greatest value. It tells friends and foes alike that Pakistan and Saudi Arabia will stand shoulder to shoulder, and that is no small promise in a turbulent neighborhood.
Maung Soe
ဆရာကြီး Mufti Taqi Usmani ရဲ့ ကာတာ…ဒိုဟာမှာ ကျင်းပခဲ့တဲ့ မွတ်ဆလင်မ်ကမ္ဘာရဲ့ အရေးပေါ် အစည်းဝေး ရလဒ်နဲ့ ပက်သတ်ပြီး ပြောဆိုချက်….
“မျှော်လင့်ထားသလိုပဲ မွတ်ဆလင်နိုင်ငံတွေရဲ့ အစည်းအဝေးက အနှစ်သာရမရှိတဲ့ ကြေငြာချက်နဲ့ ပြီးသွားတယ်။
ပါကစ္စတန်၊ တူရကီ၊ မလေးရှားစသည်ဖြင့် တင်သွင်းသော လက်တွေ့ကျသော အဆိုပြုချက်များက ပူးတွဲကြေငြာချက်ရဲ့ တစ်စိတ်တစ်ပိုင်းအဖြစ်သို့ မရောက်ရှိနိုင်ဘဲ နှုတ်ဖြင့် ရှုံ့ချခြင်းသက်သက်ဖြင့် နိဂုံးချုပ်ခဲ့တယ်။
ဒီလိုသာ ဖြစ်ခဲ့ရင် ဒီလို ကြီးကျယ်ခမ်းနားတဲ့ အစည်းအဝေးကြီးအတွက် ဘာလိုမလဲ။
အကယ်၍ လုပ်သမျှကို ရှုံ့ချဖို့အတွက်ဆိုရင် ဒီအစည်းအဝေးကြီးရဲ့ အဓိပ္ပါယ်ကဘာလဲလို့ဆိုလိုတာပါ။
Inna Lillahi wa Inna Ilayhi Raji’un”
စဖြစ်ကတည်းကရေးခဲ့ပါတယ်…အိမ်ကျွန်တွေဆိုတော့ သခင်မတရားလုပ်လည်း မတရားမှုလို့မြင်ဖို့အခွင့်အရေးမရှိသလို သခင်အလိုကျ စကားနားထောင်ပေးရမှာဘဲ။
သခင်စိတ်အလိုဆန္ဒကိုဘဲ ဉီးစားပေးရမယ်။
ကာတာနဲ့အတူ ပြတ်ပြတ်သားသားရပ်တည်ရဲတဲ့ မွတ်ဆလင်မ်နိုင်ငံတွေတော့ သိပ်မတွေ့နိုင်ဘူး။
ကာတာ ကိုယ်တိုင်ကလည်း ဘယ်အထိရပ်တည်မလည်းဆိုတာစောင့်ကြည့်ရမယ်။
လောကစည်းစိမ်းပေါ်သာယာပြီး သေခြင်းကိုကြောက်ရွံ့သူတွေအတွက်ကတော့ အိမ်ကျွန်အဖြစ်နေရတာပိုသာယာမှာမြင်တယ်လို့ရေးခဲ့တယ်။
Arab ခေါင်းဆောင်တွေရဲ့ မူနာဖစ် စိတ်ဓာတ်ကြောင့် Arab တွေ အတုန်းအရုန်း အ thet ခံရမယ့်အချိန် နီးကပ်လာပြီလို့မြင်တယ်။
ကိုယ်ကျင့်တရားပျက်ဆီးမှုနဲ့ အကျင့်ပြတ်ခြစားမှုတွေကြောင့် Gog and Magog တွေရဲ့ အတုန်းအရုန်း
thet ဖြတ်မှုကိုခံရမှာဖြစ်တယ်လို့ကြိုရေးခဲ့ပါတယ်။
ဘာမှဖြစ်မလာဘူးဆိုတာကြိုမြင်လို့ အစကတည်းက ကြီးကြီးမားမား ဘာမှမျော်လင့်မထားပါဘူး။
Almighty God သတ်မှတ်ထားသလိုဘဲ တိတိကျကျ ဖြစ်ရမယ်ဆိုတာ အပြည့်အဝ ယုံကြည်မှုရှိတယ်။
#MS.
ကမ္ဘာ့နိုင်ငံရေး က ရှုတ်ထွေးတယ် စစ်အင်အားတည်ဆောက်ဖို့ အင်အားကောင်းအောင်အချိန်ယူရမှာ ဒီအချိန် ညီသွားရင် အမေရိကန်က အစ္စရေး ကို ချခိုင်းပြီး မျက်စိမှိတ်နေလိုက်မှာ ဥရောပစစ်ကို အရှေ့အလယ်ပိုင်းရွှေ့လိုက်မှာ အခုလုပ်နေတာကတော့ ဆော်ဒီနဲ့ ပါကစ် စစ်ပူးပေါင်းစာချုပ်ချုပ်တယ် ကာတာ ဟူဒီ အီရန် Drone လုပ်ဖို့ 1 B နဲ့ စာချုပ်ချုပ်တယ် တူရကီ နဲ့ အခြား UAE ချုပ်မယ်ထင်တယ် စစ်အင်အားကောင်းပြီး တရုတ်နဲ့အဆက်အသွယ်ရှိတဲ့နိုင်ငံပူးပေါင်းပြီး စစ်အင်အားနံ့ လက်နက်ထုတ်လုပ်မှုစွမ်းရည်အရင်စမြှင့်ပြီး အီရန်လိုစစ်ခေါ်လို့ရမှာ
Replied to Ohn Win
အဲဒီအချက်တွေသိတယ်။
အီရန်က အမေရိကန်ကို Kick out လုပ်လိုက် လုံခြုံရေး missiles စနစ်ချပေးမယ်တောင်ကမ်းလှန်းထားသေးတယ်။
ပြောချင်တာဒါတွေမဟုတ်ဘူး။
ဉရောပစစ်ကိုအရှေ့အလယ်ပိုင်းရွေ့လိုက်မယ်ဆိုတာထက် အရှေ့အလယ်ပိုင်းဒေသတွင်းကြီးစိုးရေးအတွက် ဉရောပစစ်ကိုဖန်တီးထားရတာလို့ပြောင်းတွေးကြည့်မိတယ်။
Arab တွေအချိန်နောက်ကျသွားပြီလို့မစဉ်းစားချင်ဘူး။
YOUR ENEMY OUR ENEMY
September 18, 2025
in Newspaper, Regional, Islamabad, National, Headlines
Pakistan, Saudi Arabia sign Strategic Mutual Defence Agreement Agreement stipulates any aggression against one country will be considered aggression against both.
PM Shehbaz holds talks with Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir, Chief of
Army Staff, played key role in Pak-KSA defence pact.
ISLAMABAD/RIYADH – Following the meeting, the joint statement on the visit of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was issued.
At the gracious invitation of His Royal Highness Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Crown Prince and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Prime Minister of Pakistan Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif paid an official visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on 17 September 2025 /25 Rabi al-Awwal 1447 AH.
“His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and Prime Minister, Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, welcomed the Prime Minister of Pakistan at Al-Yamamah Palace in Riyadh. The two leaders held a formal meeting in the presence of delegations from both Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. At the start of the meeting, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif extended greetings and expressed good wishes for the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. Both sides reviewed and discussed the historic and strategic relations between the two countries, as well as a range of issues of mutual interest.”
According to the joint statement, “in light of the historic partnership spanning nearly eight decades between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan rooted in brotherhood, Islamic solidarity, shared strategic interests, and close defense cooperation His Royal Highness Crown Prince and Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif signed the Strategic Mutual Defense Agreement (SMDA) between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.”
This agreement, reflecting the shared commitment of both countries to enhance their security and contribute to peace and stability in the region and the wider world, aims to strengthen defense cooperation and reinforce joint defense and protection against any aggression. The agreement stipulates that any aggression against one country will be considered aggression against both.”
Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif expressed heartfelt gratitude to His Royal Highness Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud for the warm welcome and generous hospitality extended to him and his delegation. He conveyed his best wishes for the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and Prime Minister Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, and the brotherly people of Saudi Arabia for continued progress, prosperity, and well-being. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince reciprocated with best wishes for the good health and well-being of Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, as well as for further development and prosperity of the brotherly people of Pakistan.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif arrived at Saudi Royal Diwan, the Yamama Palace, to meet Crown Prince and Prime Minister Muhammad bin Salman on Wednesday.
PM Shehbaz Sharif arrived in Riyadh on an official visit to Saudi Arabia, at the invitation of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Upon his arrival at the King Khalid Airport, the Prime Minister and the accompanying Pakistani delegation were warmly received by Riyadh’s Deputy Governor Prince Muhammad bin Abdulrahman bin Abdulaziz, Saudi Ambassador to Pakistan Nawaf bin Said Al-Malki, Pakistan’s Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Ahmad Farooq, and senior diplomatic officials. Pakistani flags were hoisted throughout the city to mark the Prime Minister’s visit. Shehbaz Sharif was accorded a 21-gun salute, while a smartly turned-out contingent of the Saudi armed forces also presented a salute to the Prime Minister.
Later, the Prime Minister Sharif will proceed to the Royal Court at Al-Yamamah palace for a meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, where a formal reception for the Prime Minister and the Pakistani delegation will be held at the palace.
During the bilateral meeting, both the leaders will review all the aspect of Pakistan-Saudi Arabia relations. They will also exchange views on regional and global developments of mutual interest. The visit is expected to yield tangible progress in enhancing cooperation across various sectors, reflecting the shared commitment to further strengthen the deep-rooted and brotherly ties between the two nations.
Saudi Gazette reports
Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman held official talks with Pakistani Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif in Riyadh on Wednesday. Upon arrival at Al-Yamamah Palace, Sharif was accorded an official reception.
The Pakistani prime minister and his accompanying delegation arrived in Riyadh on Wednesday afternoon for a state visit. His plane was escorted by F-15 fighter jets from the Royal Saudi Air Force after entering the Kingdom’s airspace. As soon as the premier’s plane entered Saudi airspace, “Saudi Air Force jets escorted and protected it”, Pakistan’s state-run PTV News reported. “This was a gesture of brotherly love and respect by the Government of Saudi Arabia. This honor in the Muslim world is the result of Allah’s blessings, Shehbaz Sharif’s diplomatic skills, and the unparalleled achievements of our Armed Forces,” it said.
Sharif was received at King Khalid International Airport by Riyadh Deputy Emir Prince Mohammed bin Abdulrahman; Minister of Investment Eng. Khalid Al-Falih; Saudi Ambassador to Pakistan Nawaf Al-Maliki; Pakistani Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Ahmed Farooq; and a number of senior officials.
Shehbaz Sharif’s visit to Riyadh comes two days after his meeting with the Crown Prince in the Qatari capital, Doha, on the sidelines of the emergency Arab-Islamic summit. During the meeting, they discussed prospects for relations between the two countries and reviewed developments in the region.
The Pakistani Foreign Office said in a statement that PM Sharif undertook the visit at the invitation of the Saudi Crown Prince. It said that both leaders were expected to exchange views on regional and global developments of mutual interest. “The visit is expected to result in the formalization of cooperation in diverse fields, reflecting the shared commitment of both sides to further enhance and deepen their longstanding fraternal ties,” it added.
Highlighting the “historic relationship” between the countries, the statement said that the visit will “provide an important opportunity to the two leaders to consolidate this unique partnership, while exploring new avenues of collaboration, for the benefit of the peoples of the two countries.”
