Pakistan to join Saudi coalition against Yemen rebels - senior official

[Purveyor]

Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - Pakistan will send troops to Saudi Arabia to give military support to a coalition of mainly Gulf states fighting Yemeni Houthi rebels, a senior government official said on Monday.

Largely Sunni Muslim Pakistan - a regional ally of Saudi Arabia, the Gulf's main Sunni Muslim power - would join a Saudi-led military coalition conducting air strikes against Shi'ite Houthi forces, the official said.

The air strikes are targeting the rebels' southward advance on the port city of Aden, the last bastion of Saudi-backed president, Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.

Pakistan's Defence Minister Khawaj Asif denied that the country had made a decision to send troops to Saudi Arabia, saying a delegation led by him and foreign policy chief Sartaj Aziz, would go to Saudi Arabia on Tuesday and then decide.

Read more: http://in.reuters.com/article/2015/03/30/pakistan-saudi-arabia-yemen-idINKBN0MQ1GB20150330

[KoKo]

1. Guess it is down to Will they or Won't They at this point.

After reading the whole article that's how it comes across to me.

[Lurks Often]

2. It will be Pakistan and Egypt that supply the ground forces

if the coalition decides to invade Yemen.

The rest of the Gulf nations lack the military resources to supply a large enough force to invade Yemen.

[nikto]

3. More bombs is always the answer