{"id":19696,"date":"2026-09-18T12:52:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T07:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/?p=19696"},"modified":"2026-09-18T12:52:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T07:52:28","slug":"pakistan-vows-to-ded-saudi-arabia-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/2026\/09\/18\/pakistan-vows-to-ded-saudi-arabia-t\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Vows to Defend Saudi Arabia \u2018to Any Extent\u2019 Amid Houthi Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pakistan Vows to Defend Saudi Arabia \u2018to Any Extent\u2019 Amid Houthi Attacks<\/strong><\/h3>\n

DG ISPR says Pakistan stands with Riyadh diplomatically and physically amid escalating Houthi attacks<\/p>\n

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will go \u201cto any extent\u201d to defend Saudi Arabia against attacks, the country\u2019s military spokesperson said on Thursday, reaffirming what he described as an \u201cunconditional\u201d commitment to the kingdom\u2019s security amid escalating Houthi attacks.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, director general of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR<\/a>), said Pakistan stood with Saudi Arabia \u201cboth diplomatically and physically\u201d and would continue to defend the kingdom against any aggression.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur commitment to Saudi security is unconditional,\u201d Chaudhry told Arab News in an interview, stressing that Pakistan\u2019s ties with Saudi Arabia were rooted in a \u201cdeep-rooted, historical and unbreakable bond.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said Pakistan\u2019s commitment extended to protecting Makkah and Madinah, Islam\u2019s two holiest cities.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are there to protect Haramain Sharifain,\u201d Chaudhry said, adding that Pakistan would go to whatever extent was required to protect the kingdom.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere should be no doubt on that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The remarks came as Saudi Arabia faces an escalation in cross-border attacks by Yemen\u2019s Iran-aligned Houthi movement, with the fighting raising concerns about the security of the kingdom and vital energy and shipping infrastructure.<\/p>\n

Saudi authorities said debris from an intercepted Houthi drone killed a Yemeni resident and injured two people in the western city of Taif on Thursday. The incident was the first reported civilian death in Saudi Arabia since the latest escalation in Houthi attacks.<\/p>\n

The latest fighting has added to wider disruption across the region, including threats to major energy and shipping routes. Saudi Arabia and the Houthis have exchanged attacks as the conflict has spread beyond Yemen, while tensions around the Strait of Hormuz have also placed global oil supplies under pressure.<\/p>\n

Chaudhry said Pakistan was simultaneously pursuing diplomatic efforts aimed at containing the regional conflict and securing a negotiated settlement.<\/p>\n

He said Islamabad was in contact with regional countries and partners as part of efforts to achieve \u201ca negotiated and peaceful outcome\u201d to the crisis.<\/p>\n

Pakistan has increasingly positioned itself as a diplomatic intermediary in the wider Middle East conflict following the escalation of hostilities between the United States, Israel and Iran.<\/p>\n

Chaudhry described the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding reached between Washington and Tehran in June as a \u201cconsensus document\u201d and said it represented a viable pathway toward resolving the regional crisis.<\/p>\n

Pakistan has also maintained close security ties with Saudi Arabia under its bilateral defence arrangements and the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement involving Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and T\u00fcrkiye.<\/p>\n

The Pakistani government has stressed that the Makkah agreement is defensive in nature and is intended to strengthen cooperation and collective deterrence rather than target any particular country.<\/p>\n

The renewed Pakistani pledge comes as Riyadh confronts a widening security challenge from attacks linked to the Yemen conflict, while Islamabad seeks to balance its defence commitments to Saudi Arabia with diplomatic efforts to prevent the broader regional war from expanding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pakistan Vows to Defend Saudi Arabia \u2018to Any Extent\u2019 Amid Houthi Attacks DG ISPR says Pakistan stands with Riyadh diplomatically and physically amid escalating Houthi attacks ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will go \u201cto any extent\u201d to defend Saudi Arabia against attacks, the country\u2019s military spokesperson said on Thursday, reaffirming what he described as an \u201cunconditional\u201d commitment to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":18976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2297,2298],"tags":[3702,3678,4082],"class_list":["post-19696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-dg-ispr-lieutenant-general-ahmed-sharif-chaudhry","tag-houthi-yemen","tag-pakistan-saudiarabia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19697,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19696\/revisions\/19697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}