[Breaking] Saudi Air Defense Missiles Run Dry ... Emergency Support Requested From Pakistan

It reports that Saudi Arabia's air defense missiles are running low, explaining that Houthi missile and drone attacks targeting Riyadh, major airports, and energy facilities are straining the air defense network. It says Saudi Arabia is redeploying air defense batteries to protect key facilities and moving to secure additional military support from abroad, including Pakistan. Citing Wall Street Journal sources, it describes a nationwide air defense realignment and the difficulty of defending vast territory and major facilities simultaneously, explaining that attacks have spread to civil aviation and the oil industry with civilian casualties reaching the hundreds. It covers foreign responses: US, Canadian, German, and Spanish missions advising nationals to avoid Riyadh airport, Australia urging people to shelter indoors, and Korea advising immediate departure. It analyzes that despite massive military spending, the vast territory and numerous targets make blocking every attack impossible, with interceptor consumption accumulating. It presents this air defense burden as the backdrop for the Pakistan support request, alongside reports that the US has not agreed to a military support request but has sent a military advisory mission, observations of Iranian pressure for war participation, and assessments that the Houthis may act on their own interests. It places the attacks amid a counteroffensive by Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces near the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, notes the coalition's war-crime designation and stern-response warning and President Trump's remarks on reviewing participation, and mentions escalation concerns. All directional outlooks are the speaker's conditional judgments, not definitive short-term price predictions.