Gulf establishment
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Gulf framing: foregrounds Pakistan's labour-and-capital dependence on Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar (~$34bn in remittances this fiscal year) and Sharif's envoy meetings, positioning Islamabad as a useful regional interlocutor rather than a pariah.
“Sharif met Pakistan's envoys to Gulf states and Iran to deepen economic ties as Islamabad sustains investment inflows.”