More Pakistani troops for Saudi Arabia
Islamabad, February 16
In a major policy shift, Pakistan will deploy additional troops in Saudi Arabia under an existing bilateral security agreement with its close ally involved in a civil war in neighbouring Yemen.
The Pakistan army announced the decision to send troops on a “training and advise mission” to Saudi Arabia after a meeting between Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa and Saudi ambassador to Pakistan Nawaf Saeed Al-Maliki at the army headquarters in Rawalpindi yesterday.
Already around 1,000 Pakistani troops are deployed in Saudi Arabia, a close ally of Islamabad, in various advisory and training roles. — PTI
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