Pakistan on Friday strongly condemning the attack at a petroleum distribution terminal in Saudi Arabia expressed solidarity with the Kingdom.
“Such attacks, causing fear and terror as well as disruption of commercial activities, cannot be condoned,” the Foreign Office said in a statement.
The Foreign Office said Pakistan reaffirmed its full support and solidarity with the brotherly Kingdom of Saudi Arabia against any threat to its security and territorial integrity.
#Pakistan strongly condemns attack on a petroleum distribution terminal in #Jizan Region of Saudi Arabia on 25 March 2021. Such attacks, causing fear & terror as well as disruption of commercial activities, cannot be condoned. 1/2@KSAmofaEN
— Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Pakistan (@ForeignOfficePk) March 26, 2021
A fire broke out at an oil terminal in southern Saudi Arabia after it was hit by a projectile, the energy ministry said Friday, the sixth anniversary of a Riyadh-led military intervention in Yemen.
“A projectile attack on a petroleum products distribution terminal in Jizan… resulted in a fire in one of the terminal’s tanks,” the ministry said in a statement published by the official Saudi Press Agency, adding that no casualties were reported.
It did not say who was behind the strike on Thursday, but it comes as Yemen’s Houthi rebels increasingly mount attacks on the kingdom’s energy installations.
The attack comes after Saudi Arabia on Monday offered the Houthis a “comprehensive” UN-supervised ceasefire, as part of a series of fresh proposals aimed at ending the catastrophic six-year conflict.
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But the Houthis swiftly dismissed the initiative as “nothing new” as they reiterated their demand that a Saudi-led air and sea blockade on Yemen be completely lifted.
Riyadh led a military coalition into Yemen in March 2015 to prop up the internationally recognised government, but it has struggled to oust the highly motivated rebels.
The coalition says it enforced a naval and air blockade to prevent the smuggling of weapons to the rebels from Iran — allegations Tehran denies.
Yemen on Friday marks the sixth anniversary of the Saudi-led military coalition’s involvement in the disastrous war, which has left the country broken and on the edge of famine.
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The grinding conflict has claimed tens of thousands of lives and displaced millions, according to international organisations, sparking what the UN calls the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
APP with additional input by GVS News Desk