When Sultan died in 2011, his brother Nayef was named heir to the throne, but Nayef himself died the next year. Upon becoming king in 2005, Abdullah appointed his half-brother Sultan bin Abdulaziz as crown prince.
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The three crown princes during Abdullah's reign were among the full brothers of King Fahd. The King had a longstanding relationship with Pakistan, and brokered a compromise between ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and General Pervez Musharraf, whom he had requested to be exiled to Saudi Arabia for a 10-year exile, following his ouster in the 1999 Pakistani coup d'état. According to a 2013 BBC report, Saudi Arabia could obtain nuclear weapons at will from Pakistan during Abdullah's reign due to the close relations between the two countries. Abdullah maintained the status quo when there were waves of protest in the kingdom during the Arab Spring.
He also gave women the right to vote for municipal councils and to compete in the Olympics. After King Fahd suffered a serious stroke in 1995, Abdullah became the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia until ascending the throne a decade later.ĭuring his reign Abdullah maintained close relations with the United States and the United Kingdom and bought billions of dollars worth of defense equipment from both states. He also served as deputy defense minister and was named crown prince when his half-brother Fahd took the throne in 1982. The following year, he was appointed commander of the Saudi Arabian National Guard, a post he was still holding when he became king. In 1961 he became mayor of Mecca, his first public office. Abdullah held important political posts throughout most of his adult life. His mother was a member of the Al Rashid dynasty, historical rivals of the Al Saud dynasty.
(The others were Saud, Faisal, Khalid, Fahd and Salman.)Ībdullah was the son of King Abdulaziz and Fahda bint Asi Al Shuraim. He was the tenth son of King Abdulaziz, the founder of Saudi Arabia, and the fifth of Abdulaziz's six sons who were kings. Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud ( Arabic: عبدالله بن عبدالعزيز آل سعود ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al ʿAzīz Āl Saʿūd, Najdi Arabic pronunciation: 1 August 1924 – 23 January 2015) was a Saudi Arabian politician and military commander who ruled as King of Saudi Arabia from 1 August 2005 until his death in 2015.
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