Pakistain's Parliament on Friday passed a unanimous resolution backing the government's commitment to protect Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
's territory from Houthi
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the
Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is
God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews...
rebels, but declined Riyadh's request for Pak troops, ships and warplanes inside Yemen.
Anwar Gargash, the UAE's minister of state for foreign affairs, lashed out at Pakistain's vote on his Twitter account Saturday, terming it "contradictory and dangerous and unexpected," and accusing Islamabad of siding with Iran, which is accused of backing the rebels. He added Pakistain's stand would come at a high cost.
Pakistain's interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan
...
Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz Uncle FesterSharif. He is noted for his vocal anti-American railing in the National Assembly. However (comma) Khan told the U.S. ambassador that he was in fact pro-American but he and the PML-N would have to be critical of US actions in order to remain
publicly credible. Khan cited his wife and children's US citizenship as proof, which means he's lying to one side or the other and probably both. He wears a wig, but you probably guessed that. since hair doesn't grow naturally in that shape or texture...
hit back on Sunday night in an unusually strongly worded statement, accusing the UAE of "making threats."
"This is not only ironic but a thought-provoking moment that a minister of UAE is hurling threats at Pakistain. The statement of the UAE minister is in stark violation of all diplomatic norms prevalent according to the principals of international relations," he said.