预计巴基斯坦军队将接管沙特阿拉伯的各种防御职能，使中东国家能够全面作战，旨在击败也门伊朗支持的胡塞叛乱分子。
Pakistani troops are expected to take over various defensive functions for Saudi Arabia to enable the Middle East country to fight an all-out war aimed at defeating Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels.
据国防分析人士称，预计巴基斯坦军队不会直接参与沙特阿拉伯和也门争吵不休的政府派别计划对胡塞武装发动的地面攻势。
According to defence analysts, Pakistani troops are not expected to participate directly in ground offensives against the Houthis being planned by Saudi Arabia and Yemen’s squabbling government factions.
相反，他们的主要目标将是解放沙特部队，专注于可能涉及双方数十万也门战士的持续冲突。
Instead, their primary objective would be to free up Saudi forces to focus on what is likely to be a sustained conflict involving hundreds of thousands of Yemeni fighters on both sides.
“沙特阿拉伯需要巴基斯坦帮助保卫沙特阿拉伯，以便沙特军队有更大的自由来打击胡塞武装，”伦敦国王学院国防研究副教授安德烈亚斯·克里格说。
“Saudi Arabia needs Pakistan to help defend Saudi Arabia so that Saudi forces have greater freedom to operate against the Houthis,” said Andreas Krieg, an associate professor of defence studies at King’s College London.
这意味着空中和导弹防御人员、雷达和预警、情报、监视和侦察、反无人机能力、电子战、情报融合和指挥控制支持。
That means air and missile defence personnel, radar and early warning, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, counter-drone capabilities, electronic warfare, intelligence fusion and command-and-control support.
巴基斯坦还可以提供维护、弹药支持、培训、行动规划以及可能增加的飞机和无人系统用于防御性巡逻和监视。
Pakistan can also provide maintenance, munitions support, training, operational planning and potentially additional aircraft and unmanned systems for defensive patrols and surveillance.
克里格表示，利雅得将重视巴基斯坦在红海和沙特附近的监视、情报和潜在的海军支持，特别是在跨越阿拉伯半岛也门、非洲吉布提和厄立特里亚的曼德海峡的竞争日益激烈的情况下。
Riyadh would value Pakistani surveillance, intelligence and potentially naval support around the Red Sea and Saudi approaches, Krieg said, particularly as the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, which straddles Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula and Djibouti and Eritrea in Africa, had become increasingly contested.
五角大楼退休官员、海湾国际论坛非常驻高级研究员戴夫·德斯·罗奇斯表示，沙特希望巴基斯坦在“全方位军事行动”中部署。
Dave Des Roches, a retired Pentagon official and senior non-resident fellow at the Gulf International Forum, said the Saudis wanted the Pakistanis to deploy across the “full range of military operations”.
他补充说，巴基斯坦人可能不会同意这样一个全面的角色，而巴基斯坦军队将承担的职能范围及其职责范围将在双方之间进行激烈谈判。
The Pakistanis would likely not agree to such a comprehensive role, while the scope of the functions to be assumed by Pakistani forces and their area of duty would be under intense negotiation between both sides, he added.
沙特政治学家纳瓦夫·奥贝德表示，巴基斯坦的一些专业军事单位可能已经在提供情报和指挥控制支持。
According to Saudi political scientist Nawaf Obaid, some specialist Pakistani military units may already be providing intelligence and command-and-control support.
奥贝德9月26日为半岛电视台英语撰文称，沙特和巴基斯坦联合末端攻击控制器（JTAC）团队已经“嵌入”也门北部的主要政府建制。
Writing for Al Jazeera English on September 26, Obaid claimed Saudi and Pakistani joint terminal attack controller (JTAC) teams were already “embedded” with major Yemeni government formations in the north of the country.
他们正在与伊朗军事顾问展开较量，西方情报机构报告称，伊朗军事顾问在胡塞武装上个月占领也门红海海岸和曼德海峡的过程中发挥了关键作用。
They are being pitted against Iranian military advisers, whom Western intelligence agencies reported as having played a critical role in the Houthi seizure of Yemen’s Red Sea coast and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait last month.
奥贝德表示，继上个月支持胡塞武装军事通讯的革命卫队顾问破坏了该系统后，沙特-巴基斯坦联合战术行动小组正在“恢复地面政府军与沙特领导的联合部队指挥打击系统之间的可靠联系”。
Obaid said the Saudi-Pakistani JTAC teams were “restoring an authenticated link” between government forces on the ground and the Saudi-led joint forces command strike system, following its disruption last month by Revolutionary Guards advisers who were supporting Houthi military communications.
他写道，据报道，沙特和巴基斯坦JTAC团队运营的系统比伊朗同行先进得多。它的部署使沙特战机和无人机能够对胡塞武装指挥结构和集结的地面部队发动持续的空中反攻。据也门军方发言人称，几名革命卫队顾问在“政府”空袭中丧生。
The system reportedly operated by the Saudi and Pakistani JTAC teams was far more advanced than its Iranian counterpart, he wrote. Its deployment has enabled Saudi warplanes and drones to mount a sustained aerial counteroffensive against the Houthi command structure and massing ground forces. According to Yemeni military spokesmen, several Revolutionary Guards advisers have been killed in “government” air strikes.
伊斯兰堡的安全官员对巴基斯坦在沙特与胡塞武装冲突中所扮演的角色的具体细节仍然守口如瓶，同时私下告诉记者，他们的沉默不应被误解为不作为的标志。
Security officials in Islamabad remain tight-lipped about the specifics of Pakistan’s role in the Saudi-Houthi conflict while privately telling journalists that their silence should not be misconstrued as a sign of inaction.
4月，巴基斯坦根据2025年9月签署的共同防御协议，向沙特阿拉伯部署了约8,000名士兵、一个与中国共同开发的JF-17战斗机中队以及中国建造的HQ-9远程防空系统。
In April, Pakistan deployed some 8,000 troops, a squadron of JF-17 fighters co-developed with China, and Chinese-built HQ-9 long-range air defence systems to Saudi Arabia under their mutual defence pact signed in September 2025.
与此同时，政治和军事领导人加大了有关巴基斯坦对沙特阿拉伯国防承诺程度的言论。
At the same time, political and military leaders have ratcheted up rhetoric about the extent of Pakistan’s commitment to the defence of Saudi Arabia.
“我们受这一安排的约束，以保卫沙特阿拉伯。这意味着无论我们可以使用什么手段，沙特阿拉伯也可以使用它们，”巴基斯坦国防部长卡瓦贾·穆罕默德·阿西夫周三告诉半岛电视台。
“We are bound by this arrangement to defend Saudi Arabia. That means whatever means that are available at our disposal, they’ll be available to Saudi Arabia also,” Pakistani Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif told Al Jazeera on Wednesday.
为了争取以穆斯林为主的公众支持，沙特和巴基斯坦政府以宗教外衣为决定性冲突做好准备。
To rally public support among their mostly Muslim populations, the Saudi and Pakistani governments have cloaked preparations for the decisive conflict in religious garb.
利雅得指责胡塞武装最近几周对伊斯兰教最神圣的两座圣地麦加和麦地那进行无人机袭击，也门民兵将这些指控斥为宣传。
Riyadh has accused the Houthis of carrying out drone strikes against Islam’s two holiest shrines in Mecca and Medina in recent weeks, allegations that the Yemeni militia has dismissed as propaganda.
巴基斯坦总理谢巴兹·谢里夫（Shehbaz Sharif）呼应了沙特9月26日在联合国大会上的说法，表示上个月对麦加的首次据称无人机袭击“激起了全世界穆斯林的愤怒”。
Echoing the Saudi narrative at the United Nations General Assembly on September 26, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said the first alleged drone attack on Mecca last month had “provoked the anger of Muslims throughout the world”.
谢里夫警告说，任何对两座圣寺安全和神圣性的威胁都“构成了在任何情况下都不得跨越的红线”。
Any threat to the security and sanctity of the two holy mosques “constitutes a red line that must not be crossed under any circumstances”, Sharif warned.
鉴于对保卫沙特阿拉伯的动机存在一些怀疑，德罗奇斯认为所谓的麦加袭击事件是巴基斯坦公众舆论支持加强针对胡塞武装的军事行动的“要求”。
Des Roches saw the alleged Mecca attack as a “requirement” for Pakistani public opinion to support any enhanced military action against the Houthis, given some suspicion about the motives for defending Saudi Arabia.
德罗奇斯说：“巴基斯坦人特别了解海湾地区的情况，他们为自己的武装部队感到非常自豪。”
“Pakistanis in particular know how things work in the Gulf, and they are extremely proud of their armed forces,” Des Roches said.
“保卫麦加和麦地那可以满足要求。”谢里夫在联合国发表声明之际，同一天还发生了另外三项重大事态发展。
“Defending Mecca and Medina could meet the requirement.”Sharif’s declaration at the UN coincided with three other significant developments on the same day.
沙特阿拉伯大穆夫提萨利赫·本·法赞·本·阿卜杜拉·法赞发布法令，确认沙特领导的联军打击胡塞武装的行动。
The grand mufti of Saudi Arabia Saleh bin Fawzan bin Abdullah al-Fawzan issued an edict validating the actions of Saudi-led coalition forces against the Houthis.
“维护这一伟大实体、捍卫其疆域、击退针对它的侵略、惩罚任何企图侵占其哪怕一寸土地的人，均属于最崇高的职责和最好的奉献行为，人们为此献出生命和灵魂，以求得真主的喜悦，”法乌赞在一份书面声明中宣称。
“Preserving this great entity, defending its borders, repelling aggression against it, and punishing anyone who seeks to encroach upon even an inch of it, are among the greatest duties and the best acts of devotion, for which lives and souls are sacrificed in pursuit of God’s pleasure,” Fawzan declared in a written statement.
麦加防务联盟——由沙特阿拉伯、巴基斯坦和土耳其组成——的军事指挥官也在利雅得举行了首次会晤，旨在根据8月签署的协议“探讨支持沙特的措施”。
The military commanders of the Mecca Defence Alliance – comprising Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey – also met in Riyadh for the first time to “explore measures supporting” the Saudis under the pact signed in August.
此外，也门总统领导委员会主席拉希德·阿利米发出总动员令，目标史无前例地指向全面击败胡塞武装。
In addition, the leader of Yemen’s Presidential Leadership Council Rashid al-Alimi issued a call for general mobilisation with the unprecedented goal of comprehensively defeating the Houthis.
沙特王储穆罕默德·本·萨勒曼周三在向王国协商会议发表的年度演讲中重申了这一目标。
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman reiterated this goal in his annual address to the kingdom’s consultative assembly on Wednesday.
克里格预计，巴基斯坦将在捍卫沙特领土与在也门境内实施进攻性行动的区别上保持审慎。他说：“这种区别对各方在政治上都有用。”
Krieg expected Pakistan to be cautious about the distinction between defending Saudi territory and conducting offensive operations inside Yemen. “That distinction is politically useful to everybody,” he said.
据克里格称，英国和法国采取了“本质上相同的原则”，但方式不同，以增强沙特阿拉伯的韧性。
Britain and France are adopting “essentially the same principle” but in different ways to enhance Saudi Arabia’s resilience, according to Krieg.
克里格表示，如果巴基斯坦协助保护沙特领空，法国保护石油基础设施以确保石油经由红海延布港出口，英国空军加油机让沙特战机能在空中停留更长时间，那么利雅得就能更专注于其在也门的行动。
If Pakistan helps protect Saudi airspace, France protects oil infrastructure to enable oil exports via the Red Sea port of Yanbu, and British air force tankers keep Saudi aircraft airborne for longer, Riyadh can focus more on its operations in Yemen.
克里格说：“有趣的后果是，所有这些防御性贡献都能间接助推沙特采取更具进攻性的态势。”
“The interesting consequence is that all these defensive contributions can indirectly enable a more offensive Saudi posture,” Krieg said.
“因此，防御负担分担可以在合作伙伴无需正式参战的情况下，成为进攻力量的倍增器。”
“Defensive burden-sharing can therefore become an offensive force multiplier without any of those partners formally joining the war.”