326 INDEX
One-Belt-One-Road (OBOR)
initiative, 159, 202, 204, 205
Operation Desert Storm, 129
Operation Iraqi Freedom, 158, 199
Organization of Islamic Conference
(OIC), 40, 90, 95, 97
Islamic bloc, 23, 95
P
Pakistan factor
differences and tensions between
Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, 101
India’s foreign policy and, 84, 130
in Indo-Pakistan relations, 83
Kashmir issue, 86, 88
OIC and, 95–102
Pakistani nationalism, 91
al-Saud leadership and support for
Pakistan, 123
Palestine Liberation Movement (PLO),
39, 41, 111, 117, 119–121, 232
Palestinian issue
Abdullah Plan, 118, 122
Arab countries’ interpretation, 111
Indo-Middle Eastern engagements
since 1990s, 112
Indo-Saudi relations, 119
Saudi involvement in Israeli-
Palestinian conflict, 112
Saudi–US relations, impact on, 115
UN resolutions, 111
Pan-Arabism, 17, 20, 21, 23, 24, 33,
39, 41, 45, 54, 63, 64, 84
Pan-Islamism, 20, 21, 24, 27, 28, 33,
45, 49, 60, 62–66, 75, 84, 91
as a counter to pan-Arabism, 64
Patel, Sardar Vallabhbhai, 13
Pirzada, Syed Sharifuddin, 23, 62, 91,
92, 95
Pokhran-II nuclear tests, 131
Popular Front of India (PFI), 73, 74
Q
Qatar, 2, 5, 113, 114, 137, 151, 152,
180, 198, 201–203, 216, 218R
Rabat fiasco, 91–95
Rabin, Yitzhak, 163
Rahman, Sheikh Mujibur, 43, 186
Religious revivalist movements, 73
Riyadh Declaration, 2010, 122,
137–140, 248, 252
Rohan, Denis Michael, 39
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 115, 116S
Sadat, Anwar, 40, 45, 95, 117, 197n1
Sahwa movement, 197
Salafism, 72
Salman, King of Saudi Arabia, 7, 25,
35, 113, 115, 122, 133, 139–141,
143, 152, 154, 160, 164, 165,
235, 247, 250–252, 254
Al Saud, Abdulaziz, 239–243, 246, 247
Saudi Arabia, Kingdom of
family feud, 35
Iran rivalry, 160, 207, 208, 218
military campaign against Yemen, 102
regional turmoil, 201
relations with China, 201, 203, 204
Saudi involvement and funding in
jihad, 74
al-Saud leadership and support for
Pakistan, 123
Saudi-Soviet relations, 18
terrorism and, 72, 74, 136, 139,
208, 253
US-Saudi relations, 36, 197
Saudi Arabian General Investment
Authority (SAGIA),
139, 175, 248