Rauf Klasra: Late night calls to Zardari made the difference

lThis is one aspect of Saudi interference in Pakistan's affairs. The other one that is even less discussed is their support - moral and financial - for the religious clergy masterminds of different stripes who unleash the suicide bombers all over Pakistan ~~~t

Other than the US and UK, Saudi Arabian leaders will be relaxed after President Zardari agreed to revive the old arrangement of power-sharing at the Centre and the Punjab. A genuinely worried Saudi King had even sent his intelligence chief, Sheikh Mukrin, with a long letter in the name of President Asif Zardari. In this letter he told the president not to disturb the existing political power-sharing system at least for one and a half years as the friends of Pakistan were seriously concerned about the deepening instability in the country.