Saudi snub is not Nawaz Sharif's failure
I have always been a critic of Nawaz Sharif and his style of government. As for Panama, it is my maintained position that he should step down and clear his name before assuming any political role again. Having said that, at the snub Nawaz got in Riyadh, I believe it is a result of his reluctance to join an open assault on Iran. And so the sidelining was of a Pakistani premier who realized the social cost of taking sides in an Arab-Iran conflict for his country. What Nawaz has done, even Asif Zardari or Imran Khan would have done the same. For Pakistan's elected representatives do realize that such a conflict will be an all out social implosion of the country. For all their failures and misgivings, Pakistan's elected representatives, even someone as reckless and under debt of Saudis as Nawaz Sharif, have shown caution when making calls that can lead to social breakdown of the country. Be it playing the balancing act in Saudi-Iran conflict, or refusing to budge to the pressure t