Reasons of presence Pakistani forces in Saudi Arabia

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In April 2015, Saudi Arabia attacked Yemen with the aim of defeating Ansar Allah’s movement , and sought victory within a few weeks, but after three years of Saudi war in Yemen without hope, victory did not materialize.

Recently, sources said the kingdom was seeking some sort of withdrawal from Yemen and would be replaced by troops from Latin America, so it start to recruited Sudanese, Senegalese and Blackwater mercenaries to join the US-backed Saudi-led coalition forces in Yemen.

The Pakistan could deploy more than 1,000 more troops to join forces based in Saudi Arabia under a security pact between the two sides signed in 1982, Anatolian News Agency a senior quoted military official as saying.

Pakistan’s recent decision to send more troops to Saudi Arabia for advisory and training purposes has led to internal conflicts over the possibility of using these forces in the Yemeni war.

Since the beginning of the Yemeni war, Saudi Arabia has been doing its best to bring Egyptian and Pakistani troops for supporting join the coalition forces .
The Egyptian government strongly opposed the military intervention in the Yemeni war because the ex- experience of Egypt army, that had defeated in northern Yemen in the 1960s.

On the other hand, the Pakistani government has failed to obtain the approval of its parliament for military intervention in the Yemeni war.

The Pakistani parliamentarians issued a resolution supporting the efforts to end the Yemeni crisis through negotiations and urged the government to refrain from deploying military units in Yemen.

After the announcement of an agreement to send Pakistani troops to Saudi Arabia to train the Saudi army, the senat Chairman Raza Rabbani summoned Defense Minister Khuram Dastgir on 17 February to clarify the background of the previous decision.

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