Houthi strikes on Saudi Arabia? Pakistan's role under lens; pact without an impact

As Houthi missiles and drones continue to pound southern Saudi Arabia, a glaring question has emerged from the crisis: where is Pakistan? More than a month after Islamabad signed a landmark mutual defence pact with Riyadh, its much-publicised commitment to the kingdom's security appears to exist only on paper.On August 7, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif signed the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement (MJDA), a pact explicitly stating that an armed attack on any one of the three nations would be treated as an attack on all.