Pakistan on Friday strongly condemned ballistic missiles and droneslaunched towards Jizan, Saudi Arabia on 14 and 15 April 2021 by Houthis.

It is commendable that Saudi forces intercepted and destroyed allprojectiles successfully. Such attacks causing fear and terror arereprehensible, the Foreign Office said in a statement.

“Pakistan reaffirms its full support and solidarity with the brotherlyKingdom of Saudi Arabia against any threat to its security and territorialintegrity,” the statement added.

A Houthi spokesman in the northern capital of Sanaa said that 11 missilesand drones had targeted facilities belonging to the Saudi oil giant Aramco.

There was no Saudi confirmation of a fire or of a hit on a Patriotanti-missile structure which the Houthi military spokesman said was alsostruck.

However, the Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthis in Yemen said somedebris from intercepting the four drones and five ballistic missiles firedovernight and in the early morning had landed within the grounds of JazanUniversity and started a limited fire that was brought under control.

The Iran-aligned rebels have struck Aramco facilities several times in thepast, underscoring the vulnerability of Saudi Arabia’s expensive andstrategically vital oil infrastructure.

Thursday’s incident comes days after the Houthis claimed to have launcheddrone attacks against Saudi Arabia’s Aramco’s facilities on Monday.

Last November, the rebels hit an Aramco plant in Jeddah with a Quds-2missile, tearing a hole in an oil tank and triggering an explosion andfire, the company said.

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