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Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar strongly condemned the military attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, in a statement posted on his account on social media platform X.
Operative Information Center-OMM reports that Dar said six Pakistani nationals were among those injured and wished all the wounded a speedy recovery. The Pakistani diplomat stressed that attacks targeting civilians and strategic civilian infrastructure were unacceptable, constituted a serious violation of international law and posed a grave threat to regional peace and security.
Declaring Pakistan’s unwavering solidarity with Saudi Arabia’s leadership and people, the foreign minister reiterated Islamabad’s full commitment to Saudi Arabia’s sovereignty, territorial integrity and security under the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement.
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif also strongly condemned the terrorist attack and offered his condolences to the families of those killed and to Saudi Arabia’s leadership.
According to an official statement issued by Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA), 13 people were killed and 309 sustained injuries of varying severity in an air attack targeting King Khalid International Airport on October 10.
In recent times, amid a renewed escalation of military clashes between government forces and the Houthi group in Yemen, the Iran-backed Houthis have continued to target Saudi territory with ballistic missiles and kamikaze unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
