Pakistan's Great Debate: Heed Saudi Arabia's request to bomb Yemen or Iran's request (For Oman and T

[EmperorScorpious]

[quote][highlight]Pakistan debates military involvement in Yemen[/highlight]

Saudi Arabia has asked for Pakistani fighter jets, [B]ground troops and naval warships to join its campaign against Houthi rebels in Yemen, Pakistan's defence minister has said.[/B]

Khwaja Asif was addressing a joint session of the Pakistani parliament, which met in Islamabad on Monday to begin a debate on whether to join the Saudi-led military intervention in Yemen, where air strikes against Houthi rebels have been ongoing since March 25.

Pakistan has regularly voiced support for the Saudi mission, but has so far not committed to taking material part in the air strikes against the Houthis, who are said to be backed by one of Pakistan's neighbours, Iran.

[B]Saudi officials and state media, however, have been citing Pakistan as one of 10 countries that are actively engaged in the military campaign in Yemen.[/B]

Asif said that while no decision had yet been taken on joining the military coalition, "any violation of Saudi Arabia's territorial integrity would elicit a strong response from Pakistan", echoing the position publicly stated by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif repeatedly in the last week.

Terming the Houthi rebels "non-state actors", who had overthrown the "legitimate” Yemeni government, led by President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, Asif stressed that Pakistan, along with regional ally Turkey, was calling for a peaceful resolution to the conflict.

"The situation is grave and might endanger the safety and security of the whole region," Asif said.

In the last week, more than 980 Pakistanis have been evacuated from Yemen by the Pakistani government, which has sent commercial aircraft and naval ships to aid in this effort, in conjunction with Saudi military authorities. The country is host to approximately 3,000 Pakistanis.[/quote]

[url]http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/04/pakistan-debates-military-involvement-yemen-150406163128463.html[/url]

[quote][highlight]Iran's Foreign Minister Zarif seeks Pakistan's help in Yemen crisis[/highlight]

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said that Pakistan and Iran should cooperate to solve the crisis in Yemen.

"We need to work together to find a political solution," Zarif said as he arrived for a two-day visit to Islamabad, in which he was expected to urge Pakistan to reject a Saudi request to join a military operation against Houthi forces in Yemen.

"The people of Yemen should not have to face aerial bombardment," he said, referring to air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition that started last month.

[B]Zarif said he favoured a four-part plan to impose a ceasefire in Yemen, deliver humanitarian assistance and then establish a broad-based dialogue and finally a broad-based government.
He recommended this to Pakistani, Turkish and Omani leaders, he said.[/B]

Pakistani members of parliament on Wednesday spent a third day debating the Saudi request, with all speakers so far arguing against militarily involvement in Yemen.[/quote]

[url]http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/04/iran-zarif-due-pakistan-yemen-war-debate-150408052903767.html[/url]

Odds are Pakistan will help Saudi Arabia, the Saudis have been pumping a lot of money into Pakistan's economy...it'd be a shame for it to all dry up.

[Zillamaster55]

Now, before anyone says "This is the new Mid-East proxy war", Yemen has been considered the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Yemen_Civil_War]Middle-Eastern vietnam[/url] for a very long time.

[cecilbdemodded]

Pakistan has a Sunni majority, is on Iran's east, and is a nuclear power. I imagine that's why the Saudis want to get them involved. Pakistan can play both sides against each other for maximum gain, but that's a dangerous game.

[RockmanYoshi]

[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;47485563]Now, before anyone says "This is the new Mid-East proxy war", Yemen has been considered the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Yemen_Civil_War]Middle-Eastern vietnam[/url] for a very long time.[/QUOTE]

except in a way we didn't really lose anything by having the mutawakkilite kingdom gone (except countless Egyptian troops), whereas in Vietnam the south was useful to us, and was a great loss.

[Sableye]

[QUOTE=cecilbdemodded;47486320]Pakistan has a Sunni majority, is on Iran's east, and is a nuclear power. I imagine that's why the Saudis want to get them involved. Pakistan can play both sides against each other for maximum gain, but that's a dangerous game.[/QUOTE]

Eh Pakistan's nukes are only there to scare India, they have enough problems with the various ethnicities in their own country to try and start a fight, but its really weird and possibly alarming to see the Muslim states turn on each other, even though they've never really gotten along anyways, but continuing proxy fights and inciting conflicts with each other is never going to bring prosperity to anyone there which will just cause more generations of this shit

[EmperorScorpious]

[QUOTE=Sableye;47486558]Eh Pakistan's nukes are only there to scare India, they have enough problems with the various ethnicities in their own country to try and start a fight, but its really weird and possibly alarming to see the Muslim states turn on each other, even though they've never really gotten along anyways, but continuing proxy fights and inciting conflicts with each other is never going to bring prosperity to anyone there which will just cause more generations of this shit[/QUOTE]

The biggest divisional cause between "Muslim states" is nationality.

Saudi Arabia is Arab, Pakistan is not, despite both being mostly Sunni. Same with Turkey.

Which is another reason Persia is hated so much in that region - they're neither Sunni [I]or[/I] Arab.