Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Turkiye to hold Makkah defence pact talks next week amid rise in Houthi attacks

Islamabad, Oct 2 (UNI) Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkiye will convene a meeting of the Makkah Defence Alliance's Strategic Political Defence Committee (SPDC) in Riyadh next week to focus on the surge in Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia, Pakistan's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar said on Friday. He made the remarks while addressing a press briefing detailing the Pakistan delegation's engagements at the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York in September, as well as high-level meetings that took place on its sidelines. "We made a plan because all three of us…