Syed, Baqir Sajjad (22 April 2017). „Raheel leaves for Riyadh to command military alliance“. Dawn. Nuoroda tikrinta 8 June 2017. „Pakistan already has 1,180 troops in Saudi Arabia under a 1982 bilateral agreement. The deployed troops are mostly serving there in training and advisory capacity.“
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Shams, Shamil (30 August 2016). „Examining Saudi-Pakistani ties in changing geopolitics“. Deutsche Welle. Nuoroda tikrinta 8 June 2017. „However, security experts say that being an ally of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan is part of a security cooperation agreement under which about 1,000 Pakistani troops are performing an "advisory" role to Riyadh and are stationed in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries.“