At the beginning of the year the former Saudi oil minister and internationally renown price-hawk, Sheikh AhmadZaki Yamani, warned that the long-term outlook for oil producing countries was "disturbing".
Earlier Pakistani Defence Minister Ahmad Mukhtar said Jaish-e-Mohammad founder Masood Azhar and Lashkar-e-Taiba commander Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi had been held.