Why has India become so important and Pakistan so unimportant in the Arab countries?

The meeting of the national security advisers of the United States, India and the United Arab Emirates with the Crown Prince and Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, on Sunday last week is being considered very important.

It is being said that the United States is paying special attention to India in its strategy in the Gulf countries.

India's new prospects are being talked about in the Arab world. Michael Kugelman, director of the South Asia Institute of the Wilson Center, a think tank, wrote in the American journal Foreign Policy that the proposal presented together in Saudi Arabia by the national security advisers of the three countries shows that India and UAE are also interested in it.

Indo-Pacific as well as the Middle East. moving toward working together to curb China's influence in the East.

Michael Kugelman has written that the "Biden administration believes that China's growing influence in the Middle East can only be contained through a plan of engagement".

West Asia is in a tumultuous period. In such a situation, the Arab countries are coming together once again, forgetting their mutual enmity.

This is the first such high-level meeting since the civil war in Syria started in 2011.

Russia is said to be trying to normalize relations between Turkey and Syria.

In such a situation, the meeting of India's National Security Advisor Ajit Doval with the National Security Advisors of the United States and the UAE in Saudi Arabia is important.

Raja Mohan, a senior researcher at the Asia Society Policy Institute, has written that India and America's warm-heartedness in the Gulf countries is quite different from India's traditional policy.

He has written that former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's policy in the Middle East was that India should oppose or stay away from America here.