Islamabad, Feb. 21 (TNS): Senator Farhatullah Babar once again expressed concerns about the decision to deploy additional troops to Saudi Arabia, saying there’s a risk of Pakistani armed forces getting pulled into the Yemen conflict.
Speaking on the Senate floor, Babar said his reservations on the issue remain as Defence Minister Khurram Dastgir had outright refused to answer some questions about the deployment.
“If the troops were deployed along the Saudi Arabia-Yemen border they could soon get sucked in [the] quagmire under the doctrine of hot pursuit,” he said.
Babar said it should be placed on record whether Pakistani troops will be deployed on the Saudi border and whether they could be sent to Yemen to take part in the conflict there.
“You will soon hear [the news] that the [Pakistani] armed forces personnel have gone to Yemen,” he said, adding that it would be “disastrous” if that actually happened.
