Pakistan in talks with Saudi Arabia to send combat troops to protect the kingdom

[sohailbutt1987]

LOL are you serious in demands..

The same law applies to all nationalities here!

 

[VCheng]

I said this a while ago:

Yes, but Pakistan will eventually be forced to pick a side out of many internal and external compulsions.

It is only a matter of time before this involvement gets deeper and deeper.

 

[H!TchHiker]

The same law applies to all nationalities here!

Which law ? This is what i am saying there is 1 law that applies to all..There is no exception if you are pakistani or not...Why would KSA make any exception just for paksitanis...There is no logic and reason to do that..Why would they issue green card type any thing to paksitanis...If they issues they will do it all for all other nationalities..

 

[HAIDER]

Why don't NS get green cards for all Pakistani expatriates living in the Kingdom in return of our Army's service?

We expatriates have to pay around $2,000.00 per year for residence permit renewal and from the mid of this year we have to pay an additional $400.00 per dependant under a single expatriate as tax for residence permit renewal.

On top of that we have to pay an extra $60.00 per person for exit re-entry visa just to leave the kingdom and come back later?!

Are you serious ?????????????????????????????????????

 

[ABCharlie]

I would actually wait for this news to get confirmed first.

 

[sohailbutt1987]

Are you serious ?????????????????????????????????????

You can confirm with any other Pakistani expatriate living in Kingdom.

 

[YeBeWarned]

another COAS selling the blood of his Soldiers to Rich Arabs ...
I wish this news is not true but " na Baap bara na Bhaiya , Sab se bara Rupiyaa " , Gen Sahab has just secured a Permanent Job in GCC after retirement and a Palace with Ferrari for his kids

 

[HAIDER]

You can confirm with any other Pakistani expatriate living in Kingdom.

Butt sahib , I really feel sorry for you guys. What you make yearly and what you pay to KSA govt. Basically they are discouraging people to come KSA.
Issa acha ha Lahore ma karyana ki dokan daal laan.

 

[Lone Ranger]

Pakistan will send combat troops to protect Saudi Arabia’s southern borders from attacks by Houthis in Yemen, reported Middle East Eye citing senior security sources.

The Pakistani brigade will only be deployed inside the southern borders of the kingdom. "It will not be used beyond Saudi borders," an insider told the Gulf-based newspaper.

The move follows a visit by Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Bajwa to Saudi Arabia in December last year. The army chief had been on a three-day visit to the kingdom where he met Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz.

"COAS reiterated Pakistan's commitment to the security and protection of the Holy Mosques and also the territorial integrity of the kingdom," Inter-Services Public Relations said in a statement.

"Later, General Qamar Javed Bajwa met chief of general staff of Saudi Forces, General Abdul Rehman bin Saleh al-Bunyan, to discuss military to military relations, defence cooperation and regional security situation.

"Both leaders agreed to boost military cooperation and collaboration."

Two years ago the parliament rejected a request by the King Salman for Islamabad to join a "Sunni" coalition to fight the Houthis. Lawmakers feared such a coalition would spark sectarian violence in Pakistan.

Relations are tense between Saudi Arabia and Yemen who have been fighting a deadly war for the last two years which has killed more than 10,000 people in Yemen, injured over 40,000.

The war was launched by Saudi Arabia and its Arab coalition allies after the Houthis overran Sanaa, the Yemeni capital, and the southern port of Aden and ousted the Saudi-backed president, Abd Rabbuh Hadi.

Last year, Pakistan initially found itself in the crosshairs of Middle Eastern politics as Saudi Arabia named it as part of its newly formed military alliance of Muslim countries meant to combat terrorism, without first getting its consent.

However, after initial ambiguity, the government had confirmed its participation in the alliance, but said that the scope of its participation would be defined after Riyadh shared the details of the coalition it was assembling.

The coalition was envisaged to serve as a platform for security cooperation, including provision of training, equipment and troops, and involvement of religious scholars for dealing with extremism.

The Saudi government had surprised many countries by announcing that it had forged a coalition for coordinating and supporting military operations against terrorism in Iraq, Syria, Libya, Egypt and Afghanistan.

Iran, Saudi Arabia's archrival for influence in the Arab world, was absent from the states named as participants, as proxy conflicts between the two regional powers rage from Syria to Yemen.

http://nation.com.pk/national/13-Ma...to-guard-saudi-borders-against-houthi-attacks

 

[Zarvan]

Brigade deploys to shore up border against Houthi reprisal attacks from Yemen, but sources tell MEE it will 'not be used beyond Saudi borders'

The Pakistan army is sending a brigade of combat troops to shore up Saudi Arabia’s vulnerable southern border from reprisal attacks mounted by the Houthis in Yemen, according to senior security sources.

The brigade will be based in the south of the Kingdom, but will only be deployed inside its border, the sources told Middle East Eye. "It will not be used beyond Saudi borders," one said.

It is the latest twist in a brutal and devastating two-year war, which has killed more than 10,000 people in Yemen, injured over 40,000 and brought the impoverished nation to the verge of famine.

Both sides have been accused of war crimes and starving civilians trapped in the carnage.

The war was launched by Saudi Arabia and its Arab coalition allies after the Houthis overran Sanaa, the Yemeni capital, and the southern port of Aden and ousted the Saudi-backed president, Abd Rabbuh Hadi.

Increasingly, the Houthis have been retaliating with cross-border missile strikes on targets deep inside the kingdom.

Last month the Houthis claimed to have hit a military camp near al-Mazahimiyah near Riyadh with what they called "a precision long-distance ballistic missile". The Saudis denied the claim.

On 31 January, a missile killed 80 soldiers on a base run jointly by the Saudis and Emiratis on Zugar island in the Red Sea, according to reports in Arabic media. The Saudis did not confirm nor deny the strike.

In October last a year a missile was shot down about 65km from Mecca, although the Houthis
The deployment of the Pakistani brigade follows a visit by General Qamar Javed Bajwa, the Pakistani Chief of Army Staff (COAS), to Saudi Arabia on a three-day official visit in December last year.

"COAS reiterated Pakistan's commitment to the security and protection of the Holy Mosques and also the territorial integrity of the kingdom," the Pakistani army said in a statement.

"Later, General Qamar Javed Bajwa met chief of general staff of Saudi Forces, General Abdul Rehman bin Saleh al-Bunyan, to discuss military to military relations, defence cooperation and regional security situation.

"Both leaders agreed to boost military cooperation and collaboration."

The area of deployment for the Pakistani brigade is politically sensitive in Islamabad, because two years ago the parliament rejected a request by Saudi Arabia's King Salman for Pakistan to join a "Sunni" coalition to fight the Houthis.

The Houthis, whose tribesmen mostly follow Zaidism, a variant of Shia Islam practised by a minority in northern Yemen, are backed by Iran, although the level of direct support provided by Tehran is disputed.

Parliament debated the deployment for four days, a debate dominated by the fears of further stoking sectarian violence in Pakistan where 20 percent of the population is Shia.

The parliamentary debate also became the target of intense lobbying.

Iran's foreign minister, Javad Zarif, met both Pakistani Prime Minister Prime Nawaz Sharif and the former chief of army staff, Raheel Sharif, as the debate took place.

The Iranians back the Houthis politically, and Saudi Arabia, the US and Australia all say they have supported them militarily as well.

The senior Houthi leaders have been trained by, and their paramilitary structures modelled on, Hezbollah, the Iran-backed Lebanese militia. Advisers from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have also been involved.
denied targeting the holy city.

Last year, state-affiliated media in Iran said the Houthis were using Iran-made Zelzal-3 surface-to-surface solid fuel missiles, although they insisted the weapon was produced "indigenously".

Sharif owes his life to the Saudis, who saved him from execution after a military coup which brought Pervez Musharraf to power in 1999.

However, the prime minister’s wish to repay a personal debt to the Saudis was not reciprocated by the Pakistan army.

Generals argued then that they were overstretched with campaigns against the Pakistani Taliban in the North West Tribal Areas.

Since then, however, senior military sources in Pakistan claim to have pushed the Taliban out of Swat valley and North Waziristan.

Parliament however is currently pursuing expanding trade links with Iran. Awaid Leghari, the chairman of the foreign affair’s committee of the National Assembly, recently met Ali Larijani, the speaker of the Iranian Majlis, and Alludin Boroujerdi, the chairman of Iran's foreign policy and security committee in the Islamic Consultative Assembly.

A parliamentary delegation from Islamabad is also due to visit Tehran in May. They will discuss re-opening three border markets, a projected gas pipeline and tourism.

Leghari told Pakistan's Dawn newspaper that both sides, he observed, were now feeling "internal pressures" to engage in a big way for mutual benefit.

"More pressure would have to be exerted from within the economies and people and media," he said.

The deployment would not be the first in relations between the two states. Mohammad Zia ul-Haq deployed an elite Pakistani armoured brigade to the kingdom at King Fahd's request after the Iranian revolution in 1980.

The brigade was deployed for a decade and some 40,000 soldiers served in it.

http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/e...combat-troops-saudi-southern-border-248886071

It was bound to happen. We can't piss of entire pretty much entire Sunni world to keep Iran happy. No militant group can be allowed to take over Government whether TTP or some one else. This trend has to be stopped every where in Muslim world.

 

[Trango Towers]

Let's hope the defensive stance doesn't become offensive.

Remember desert shield and then
Desert storm

 

[StrategyMaster]

I feel that the Yemeni borders are in need of much help. A strong Pak Army presence there might even end the war.
Muslim lives saved.

if you understand in broader extent it will resolve the problem if we will be able to make a bridge between Saudia and Iran then Yemen should be no more a proxy platform

 

[Hassan Guy]

Could have sword saudi has an 80 billion dollar defence budget while we at 8, not the other way around.....

 

[sohailbutt1987]

Butt sahib , I really feel sorry for you guys. What you make yearly and what you pay to KSA govt. Basically they are discouraging people to come KSA.
Issa acha ha Lahore ma karyana ki dokan daal laan.

Haider Sahab, would you like to know more!

I own 3 companies under SAGIA and I pay SR180,000.00 (SR65,000.00 per company) to get their license renewed per year.

Agar tuwanu aur luchaan da pata karna hoye to tussi message karna![emoji12]

 

[Jf Thunder]

No, no need to get our soldiers killed for nothing......