Pakistan, Nov. 13 -- Pakistan is ready to take "all necessary defensive measures" to protect Saudi Arabia amid regional tensions, Director General Inter-Services Public Relations (DG ISPR) Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry said, stressing that Islamabad's commitment to the Kingdom's security, sovereignty and territorial integrity "is absolute and non-negotiable".

"Pakistan is ready, in light of current circumstances and based on the Joint Strategic Defence Agreement between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan and the Makkah Alliance, to take all necessary defensive measures to defend the Kingdom," said Chaudhry in an interview with a Saudi newspaper.

The statement came amid escalating tensions in the Middle East following a series of missi...