By Afshain Afzal
On Thursday, 24 September 2026, Saudi Arabia claimed to have intercepted six ballistic missiles. Yemen's Houthis, on the other hand, claimed that they had launched missile and drone attacks on a sensitive target in Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh and on Saudi Aramco facilities in the Red Sea city of Yanbu. Major General Turki al-Maliki said in a statement, “missiles were aimed at the Saudi cities of Taif and Yanbu while Houthis violations will be dealt firmly. Interestingly, Houthis issued a misleading and baseless claim that on 23 September Saudi forces had carried out 52 air strikes and missile attacks on the Hodeidah and Taiz. On ground nothing was confirmed expect firing of some missiles towards Saudi Arabia by unidentified group. The fact cannot be denied that the security situation in Yemen was turning comparatively calm since 21 September 2026 and improving day by day and how all of a sudden social media extensive campaigning for MJDA and military might Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, when Houthis realized and extended hand for peace at Najran.
The fact cannot de denied that the Western militaries have command and control over the social media through precisionized Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools, capable enough to let the masses believe what Westerners want them to believe. The Irano-US arms against Arab nations in the form of Houthis of Yemen, Peshmerga forces in Iraq, settlers in Arab countries including Saudi Arabia as well as other centrifugal groups against ruling government are funded and armed by the Western countries and India to build Iranian hegemony in the region so that export of Arab oil as well as Arab pride is restricted or completely eliminated. The satellite imageries were also treated with AI tools to mislead the world. What the world is being shown, told and asked to believe is part of cyber bluff and back propaganda to suit self-interests.
Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey signed Makkah Joint Defence Agreement (MJDA). The inaugural meeting of the Strategic Political and Defence Committee took place on 31 August 2026 at Istanbul and now Pakistan has appointed Lieutenant General (Retired) Nauman Mahmood as the first Secretary General to MJDA. What is the missing part is statement by the Secretary General in the light of prevailing security situation. One wonders when there existed Islamic Military Alliance (IMA) renamed as Islamic Military Counter Terrorism Coalition (IMCTC), an intergovernmental military alliance of 43 Muslim-majority countries with its headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia why parallel MJDA was created? Interestingly to destroy the objectives of IMCTC, the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Centre (UNCCT) and Government of the United Kingdom got directly involved diverting main focus from countering terrorism to eliminating extremism. The enemy agents are trying their best to include US and other western nations into MJDA to destroy core objective and mission of joint defence for peace and tranquility.