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- Pakistan maintains its defence pact with Saudi Arabia while avoiding direct combat in Yemen.
- Pakistan deployed troops near the Saudi-Yemen border and sent a fighter-jet squadron to Saudi Arabia.
- Analysts warn that active air-defence support would shift Pakistan from mediator to combatant.
- Field Marshal Asim Munir called Iranian FM Abbas Araqchi to discuss de-escalation.
- Foreign ministry spokesman Sajjad Haider Khan said no military response to Houthi attacks is under discussion.