Bahraini Member of Parliament demanded that the dispute with Qatar not be resolved before the latter pays BD 15 billion (around $39 billion), as compensation for economic damages caused by Qatar’s “support of terrorism”.

Editor in Chief of Qatar’s Al-Arab newspaper, Abdullah al-Azba, said that Bahrain “does not have its independent decision”, saying, ““The most honest way to describe the island of Bahrain is the country of retweet.”

Saudi Arabia and three allies accusing Qatar of supporting terrorism have agreed to a request by Kuwait to extend by 48 hours Sunday's deadline for Doha to comply, according to a joint statement on Saudi state news agency SPA.

Qatar's foreign minister will formally give Kuwait's ruler the country's response to demands by Saudi Arabia and other Arab allies that Doha cease its alleged support for terrorism, state news agency QNA said, without indicating what that reply may be.

The Salafist Al-Asalah Society expressed support to the decision taken by Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates to sever ties with Qatar. The society said that it understands the reasons being closing the air, land and sea borders with Qatar after long years of the media policies that threaten the security and stability of the GCC states and glorify the dispute and incitement of people as well as lack of Qatar commitment to the agreement it signed in 2014.

Simon Henderson, the Baker fellow at The Washington Institute and director of the Institute's Gulf and Energy Policy Program, said that Qatar's father-emir, Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, is still the driver of Qatari diplomacy.

Saeed Mohammad al-Faihani said that the National Committee for Human Rights in Qatar is staging a misleading propaganda about "grave human rights violations caused by the gulf row."

Trade restrictions imposed on Qatar by Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates are justified by national security, Bahrain's representative told a World Trade Organization meeting on Friday.

The Bahraini King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa called on Qatar to rectify its policy approach.

Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the dispute between Qatar and several other Arab states with Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa in a telephone call, the Kremlin said on Saturday.

U.S. president Donald Trump spoke with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Friday to discuss the dispute between Qatar and Gulf and Arab powers who severed diplomatic and travel links with Qatar.

Qataris responded sarcastically to Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa, King of Bahrain’s son, who described the Qataris in a speech at a military ceremony as “hypocrites.”

Qatar’s Al-Jazeera journalists have been circulating news that their former colleague, Saudi journalist Ali al-Dhufairi, presenter of “In Depth” and the “Interview”, could be under arrest or restrained movement, or even house arrest.

A Qatari human rights group is hiring a Swiss law firm to help seek compensation for citizens affected by sanctions imposed by Saudi Arabia and other Arab states, two sources familiar with the matter said on Thursday.

Qatar said on Thursday it was working with the United States and Kuwait to respond to a list of demands presented by Arab states who have accused Doha of supporting terrorism, an allegation that ignited a regional crisis between the U.S. allies.

A demand by Saudi Arabia and three other Arab nations for Qatar to close down its al-Jazeera TV channel is an "unacceptable attack" on the right to freedoms of expression and opinion, the United Nations human rights chief said on Friday.

The “Middle East Eye” website said that “a member of Bahrain's royal family has appeared to admit he "beat" pro-democracy activists on London's Oxford Street and accuse British police of being "directed" by Qatar.

Egypt accused on Tuesday Qatar of supporting terrorist organizations in Libya.

Qatar is ready to discuss "legitimate issues" with Arab states to end a regional crisis, but it said a list presented by them last week contained some demands that were impossible to be met because they were not true.

Pakistani Foreign Ministry Assistant Undersecretary for Middle East and Africa Affairs Tasawar Khan received yesterday in his office in Islamabad the UAE Ambassador to Pakistan Isa bin Abdulla Al-Basha Al-Nuaimi, Saudi Embassy Charge d'Affaires Marwan bin Radwan Merdad, Bahraini Acting Charge d'Affaires Hamad Ahmed Al-Hashel and Egyptian Acting Charge d'Affaires Rabab Said Abdulla.