Mian Shakeel Aslam--- The funeral of the crown of Saudi Arabia, Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz on Tuesday came the stage for a possible generational change in leadership of the world's largest exporter of oil in the world dignitaries to Saudi Arabia his condolences to the deceased to offer Prince, his successor is yet to be identified.
The body of Prince Sultan, who died of cancer in New York on Saturday, was born in Riyadh on Monday evening. Hundreds of men, including Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, met at the airstrip to see the coffin was lowered into an ambulance and took him, Reuters reported. Saudi state television broadcast images al-Ekhbariya live from the air base of Riyadh, where he was taken to the Sultan's body into an ambulance aircraft. It is the first time the seat of the heir is free in the history of the oil-rich Gulf state. Sultan's funeral will be held before the evening prayer in the conservative Islamic state, and his body will be taken for burial. Saudi Arabia, which rules the world oil markets and has a profound influence on the Muslims by his wing of the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina, is facing unrest in neighboring countries, and a confrontation with regional rivals of Iran. King Abdullah seems ready, the veteran Interior Minister Prince Nayef can replace the crown prince and successor name, but his choice of a defense minister to the sultan, an indication of how the conservative Islamic state managed the transition to its future leaders. The Sultan's death comes after Abdullah founded in 2006, the Loyalty Board, of 35 Prince's decision together with the reigning king of the Crown Prince to be charged together. "The rules of the Council of the flag states that the Crown Prince would be elected by the Council," said Fahd al-Harthi, director of the Riyadh-based ASBAR studies, research and communication. "But the royal decree of this system established that is not the current king and crown prince required to comply with this regulation," he told AFP. King Abdullah, has ruled the Sultan and Nayef the country since the late King Fahd fell ill in 1995, but the king is in his late 80s and spent three months abroad back this year recovering from a back problem that requires surgery hadlast week. He remains firmly in control of the empire, but the approach increasingly Nayef, who is probably in the mid-seventies, and some younger princes fall. Chief among them is Prince Salman, governor of Riyadh, is a brother of the Sultan and Nayef, and as important to a ruling family that valued the old, because she saw King Abdulaziz Ibn Saud, founded in 1932. The reforms undertaken by King Abdullah has directed to the strengthening of private sector growth and challenge the power of conservative clerics in the education system and the justice system. Officers arrived on the world Knigdom on Monday to offer condolences for the dead prince.Posted By: Mian Shakeel Aslam
Source: http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/10/25/173562.html
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