IQN (NewsDesk): Pakistan has announced that members of the Mecca Pact, a regional security agreement, will hold emergency talks focused on how to engage with Houthi forces in Yemen, as tensions involving the Iran aligned group continue to simmer across the wider Gulf and Red Sea region.
The announcement reflects growing concern among Mecca Pact members over the Houthi movement’s continued missile and drone attacks targeting shipping lanes and regional targets, which have repeatedly disrupted commercial traffic through the Red Sea and drawn in naval responses from multiple international actors. Details of the specific agenda for the emergency talks, including whether member states are considering direct diplomatic engagement or coordinated security measures against the group, were not immediately disclosed.
The talks come at a moment of broader regional volatility, with Gulf states simultaneously navigating fallout from the conflict involving Iran, Israel and the United States, adding further urgency to efforts aimed at preventing the Houthi threat from escalating into a wider regional crisis.
