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Endorse Saudi security concerns and
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Remain silent on actions Riyadh deems existential threats
But Pakistan also must not:
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Become a proxy
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Be dragged into Yemen militarily
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Reduce foreign policy to Gulf binaries
The correct posture is principled alignment without operational entanglement.
What Pakistan Should Do (and Not Do)
Your take?
— Zorays Khalid (@zorayskhalid) December 30, 2025
Do:
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Support Saudi Arabia’s right to defend its national security
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Advocate Yemen’s unity and political settlement
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Offer mediation, not muscle
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Keep diplomatic channels open with all Gulf partners
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Reaffirm that Pakistan’s defense agreements are defensive, not expeditionary
Do Not:
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Pick camps publicly in a way that forecloses diplomacy
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Participate in proxy conflicts
- Fear UAE’s US $ 3 Billion parked
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Allow Pakistani territory, manpower, or credibility to be used indirectly
Defence cooperation is not subcontracted warfare.
This Is Not the End — But It Is the End of Illusions
Saudi–UAE tensions did not begin in Yemen:
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OPEC disputes (2021)
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Sudan’s RSF backing
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Somaliland recognition
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Competing visions of Gulf order
But Yemen is where abstraction ended.
This is the first time Saudi Arabia:
