I was talking about the future, since this agreement. What if tomorrow saudia bombs Yemen, killing 100 civilians and Yemen fires ballistic missiles at Saudia, what will be Pakistan army response, to shoot them down or to target the areas where they are deployed from, in another words attacking Yemen and making Pakistan in to a target practise. This will be deviation from our official policy, which encourages Pakistan to support all muslim states, to encourage peace and unity between them.
We can say the same about saudia, they have 15m arab population, total 500m Arabs and cannot deploy 300,000 troops to defend themselves.
The point is Pakistan needs to be careful, we already have India on our backside and militancy going on, no point dragging ourselves in to others wars
You don't know anything about Yemen and its history. But let me help you educate you and others as there are barely any Arab users here and much of what is written about us is pure nonsense or ignorant speech. With all due respect.
Houthis are a fairly new group/sect/political movement/military group/terrorist group (whatever you want to call them, Yemenis all have various opinions about them), that emerged in the 1990's and was centered around the province of Sa'dah next door to KSA's Asir and Najran Provinces. It was originally a political Zaydi-alligned movement by the influential Al-Houthi tribal family in Sa'dah and an attempt to revive Zaydi rule/control of Northern Yemen that had lost steam and influence after the North Yemen civil war in 1962
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(when North Yemen was a Zaydi monarchy - ironically supported heavily by KSA) and the republicans who were supported by Nasser's Egypt. In that war Egypt lost more soldiers than any other war. Eventually the so-called Arab nationalistic/Nasserist side won and the Zaydi monarchy lost power.
Now when the KSA-Iran proxy war was at its worst, Iran actively attempted to pop up the Houthis next to KSA's Southern borders in order to create a Hezbollah like movement that was hostile to KSA and saw it as Hezbollah sees Israel, even though KSA has always been the economic lifeline of Yemen (helping keep it afloat to this very day) and hosted the largest Yemeni diaspora and even though the people of Northern Yemen and Southern KSA are basically the same with even Zaydi/Ismaily groups in Southern KSA.
Now 20 + years after Houthi insurgency and terrorism against the Yemeni state (much like all those militant groups in Pakistan that are on a weekly/monthly basis killing Pakistani soldiers and calling the Islamabad government for illegtimate), the Houthis were fought several times by their fellow Zaydi (Ali Abdullah Saleh).
Full scale insurgency started from 2004 until 2014. Before 2004 it was more sporadic when the Houthi movement was weaker.
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Now what happens in 2014? The Arab Spring is engulfing much of the Arab world and Yemenis (at least some) rebel against Ali Abdullah Saleh. The state is in desarail and various actors are roaming lose. Even likes of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula etc.
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Houthis used that momentum to kickstart an invasion of Sana'a with the aim of finally grabbing power. Now KSA and other Arab nations don't want to see a potential hostile, Iran-regime sponsored Hezbollah like movement emerging (Houthis back then were officially calling for an invasion of KSA and regime change and what not - you can google this in Arabic and plenty of videos of this) and this forced KSA to act on the side of the legitimate/official Yemeni government and rest is history KSA prevented Houthi rule of all of Yemen and defeated them in Aden and other major cities, confining them to the mountanious Northern Zaydi-dominated Yemen.. Status quo has been the same ever since and since 2020 there has been no active hostilities. There is official peace and an understanding as well even if there is little trust. Now the Houthis have created an incompetent oppresive state in Northern Yemen with little future ahead of itself. Eventually the people will rise up and changes will occur. Anyway the Houthis can continue to attack Israel, one of the few good things they have done, even if it really does not change anything on the ground. Fact of the matter here is that KSA and Yemen (as a country) have no animosity, let alone the people, and that the problem was between the Houthi leadership and their actions in Yemen and KSA' legitimate fears of not tolerating a hostile organization/group next door to you. Not much different from what would happen if anti-state Pakistani terrorist groups set up bases and were leased land in Afghanistan by the Taliban next door to potentially attack and harm Pakistan.
However now that there is an understanding and peace between the Houthi leadership and KSA, I see no reason for any future hostility or conflict and ideally we should cooperate against our fellow enemies as fellow Arabs and Muslims.
