Pakistan, Sept. 24 -- Saudi crude shipments to Pakistan through the Red Sea have resumed after drone attacks halted a key pipeline, easing shortage fears as regional conflict disrupts the country's main Middle Eastern supply routes, officials said on Tuesday. Saudi Arabia restarted its East-West Pipeline, which carries crude from oilfields in the Kingdom's east to the Red Sea port of Yanbu, after attacks forced its closure on Sept. 13 and halted loadings at the export terminal.

The route allows Saudi crude to bypass the Strait of Hormuz, where shipping has been severely disrupted since war involving the United States, Israel and Iran erupted in February. From Yanbu, tankers bound for Pakistan sail south through the Red Sea and Bab Al-Man...