Pakistan deploys troops to Saudi border with Yemen: Report

‘Pakistan is deploying a brigade of combat troops to Saudi Arabia as the kingdom is struggling to keep its southern borders from retaliatory attacks conducted by Yemeni forces, security sources say.
The unnamed sources told the Middle East Eye online portal that the troops will only be deployed inside southern Saudi Arabia. “It will not be used beyond Saudi borders,” a source stressed.
The dispatch of the brigade follows a three-day official visit by General Qamar Javed Bajwa, the Pakistani Chief of Army Staff (COAS), to Saudi Arabia in December 2016, the report said.’
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