Pakistan backs Saudi right to self-defence after Iraq strikes

• Condemns attacks by non-state actors against kingdom ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday endorsed Saudi Arabia’s air strikes in Iraq as an exercise of its right to self-defence, while reaffirming that it would honour all defence commitments undertaken with its Gulf partners. The country also insisted that those arrangements did not diminish Islamabad’s role as a mediator in the Iran-US conflict. “The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has the right to self-defence under Article 51 of the UN Charter, and w...

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