Saudi Arabia detained two Pakistani reporters for Turkey's state-run English language channel TRT World for some 10 hours during a visit by the Turkish foreign minister, before releasing them, reports said Saturday.
On June 5, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt broke off diplomatic relations with Doha and stopped all communication with Qatar, accusing it of supporting terrorism and interfering in their internal affairs.
"They are still in the base but likely to leave within the next two days".
Several Arab countries have announced that they are breaking diplomatic ties with Qatar.
Saudi Arabia, UAE and Bahrain will not back down this time.
Turkey's chief diplomat was in Doha on Wednesday where he called for dialogue after meeting Qatar's emir and foreign minister ahead of his Saudi stop.
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When it is becoming obvious that the very objective of Riyadh summit and the so-called IMA was to isolate Iran and now Qatar, Pakistan must seek an immediate withdrawal from that alliance before it is too late.
Speaking in London on Friday, Adel al-Jubeir called on Qatar to respond to what he claimed were global and regional calls for it to halt its support for "extremism and terrorism", Aljazeera reported.
"It is like playing a football match when you discover one of your own team is trying to score an own goal in every match you play", Gargash said.
What has been happening in the last few weeks is the product of the accumulation of years of unresolved tensions, driven by multiple factors, he says. Saudi Arabia and some other Gulf countries were angry with Qatar on why it was not supporting their anti-Iranian alliance and was pursuing an independent foreign policy.
There were limited details of his talks with Boris Johnson, but London is also an ally of Qatar, which is the single largest source of natural gas imports into the UK.
But last week, US President Donald Trump expressed support for the Saudi-led allegations, charging that Qatar had "historically been a funder of terrorism at a very high level". "Both Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson have very clearly come out in very nuanced ways saying this dispute goes against USA interests in the Persian Gulf and we would really appreciated if the actors involved could sit down and resolve this in a peaceful manner".
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