{"id":68828,"date":"2026-09-25T09:26:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T09:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=68828"},"modified":"2026-09-25T09:26:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T09:26:42","slug":"how-to-implement-makkah-agreement-against-houthis-three-military-chiefs-to-meet-and-decide-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/how-to-implement-makkah-agreement-against-houthis-three-military-chiefs-to-meet-and-decide-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Implement Makkah Agreement Against Houthis ? Three Military Chiefs to Meet and Decide Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Middle East Monitoring Desk Islamabad<\/strong><\/p>\n

Saudi, Turkish and Pakistani military chiefs are to meet to discuss how to support Saudi Arabia under a joint defence pact, after Saudi’s top religious authority told troops to be \u200bready to lay down their lives to fight Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis.<\/p>\n

The Houthis have launched strikes on the Saudi-backed government in Yemen and repeatedly fired into Saudi Arabia, disrupting oil flows from \u200cthe world’s largest energy exporter, as part of a wider Middle East war that began with US and Israeli strikes on Iran in February.<\/p>\n

The Houthis said they had fired dozens of missiles and drones at Saudi targets on Thursday, while authorities in Saudi Arabia said they had intercepted six ballistic missiles fired by Houthi fighters.<\/p>\n

Saudi Arabia had earlier issued emergency alerts for areas including the holy city of Mecca, as well as Jeddah and Yanbu, the main Saudi Red Sea oil port.<\/p>\n

Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti, the kingdom’s top religious \u200bauthority, called on soldiers to be ready to lay down their lives to fight the Houthis until the group is ousted from power, according to a statement late on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Amid the fighting, the Saudi, Pakistani \u200band Turkish foreign ministers met within the framework of the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement, which was signed in August. They condemned attacks targeting Mecca and other civilian sites, while \u2060affirming Saudi Arabia’s right to defend itself.<\/p>\n

“The ministers also discussed arrangements for holding an urgent meeting of the chiefs of staff of the three countries to discuss ways to support Saudi Arabia under the Mecca Joint Defence \u200bAgreement, which stipulates that an attack against any one of the parties constitutes an attack against all parties,” a Saudi statement said.<\/p>\n

The meeting was announced shortly after Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian sought to distance Iran from the Houthis \u200bin an American television interview on Thursday.<\/p>\n

“The Houthis are responsible for their own actions,” Pezeshkian told the Fox News program “Special Report with Bret Baier” a day after he appeared before the UN General Assembly in New York.<\/p>\n

Turkey’s defence ministry said Chief of General Staff General Selcuk Bayraktaroglu would travel to Saudi Arabia on Friday to meet his Saudi and Pakistani counterparts.<\/p>\n

Ankara has previously said it could help meet Riyadh’s military needs, especially on technical issues, but officials have said any support at this stage would be largely bilateral and \u200bin the spirit of their alliance, since the joint defence agreement has not yet been ratified by Turkey’s parliament.<\/p>\n

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