Making major changes in its policy, Pakistan has decided to deploy soldiers in Saudi Arabia under bilateral security cooperation. At the Army headquarters located at Rawalpindi, the army of Pakistan announced this after a meeting between army chief Gen Kamar Javed Bajwa and Saudi ambassador Nawaf Saeed al-Maliki in Pakistan.
The army said, “While continuing the Pakistan-Saudi bilateral security cooperation, a team of Pakistani Army is being sent to Saudi Arabia on training and consultation missions. These soldiers or the soldiers already present there will not be deployed outside of Saudi Arabia.
It said that the Army “has maintained bilateral security cooperation with many other Gulf and regional countries. The army said that in the meeting between Bajwa and Ambassador, the situation of regional security was discussed with the mutual interest matters.
According to officials, there are about one thousand Pakistani soldiers deployed in Saudi Arabia in various consultation and training roles. Dawn newspaper quoted Army spokesman Maj Gen Asif Gafoor as saying that the new deployment will be much less than a division and will give the details of it later.
