Pakistan, Saudi Arabia holds joint military exercise

Anjali Sharma

GG News Bureau
WASHINTON DC, 23rd Jan.
Pakistan and Saudi Arabia on Monday has announced a joint military training between the Pakistan Army and Royal Saudi Land Forces in Okara district in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province, the Pakistani military said.

The Pakistan military said that at the inauguration of the training in Okara Garrison organized by the Multan Corps of the Pakistan Army, the contingents of both countries displayed remarkable military drill, the Inter-Services Public Relations, the media wing of the Pakistani military, said on Sunday in a statement as quoted in news media.

It added that through the joint training programme, the troops of the two countries would get the opportunity to refine their skills in classroom sessions and in collective combat skills.

According to the ISPR, the badges of joint training were affixed to the officers and soldiers of the two sides at the end of the inauguration ceremony.