GCC gets paid... with interest! Pakistan provides salve labor... a subsidy they can and do replace with other wannabe slaves, either from India, Bangladesh or Philippines among others...
Iran is right next door... get it over your head that you can solve an energy crisis from choke points... that can be done overland. China has to worry about it's energy exactly because of these choke points that US can block to stop it's energy access from Mideast. Europe got it's underwater pipeline blown up....
There is no alternative... either you produce your own... divest into other forms of energy or access it from easiest, direct and easily secured route possible. That could be overland gas from Turkmenistan or pipelines from Russia or Iran which is right next door. Best yet, Pakistan doesn't need dollars to buy that energy...
Confrontation?
This tanker was coming as others previously BECAUSE it was heading to Pakistan and thus far no one touched anything headed that way....
This is new and it only reflects that one party would burn a bridge ... a bridge that Pakistan enabled... to get the ceasefire and MoU through ...
That bridge is on fire right now!