Former Army Chief General Raheel Sharif landed in Riyadh as Royal guest

29 December, 2016 21:31

Pakistan’s former army chief General (retd) Raheel Sharif has arrived in Saudi Arabia as a royal guest in a special plane to attend a grand reception being hosted in his honour in Riyadh where the members of the Royal family also attended.

The New reported his departure in a special Saudi plane that carried him to Riyadh.
On the other hand, speculations had it that he was being offered the position of defenc advisor on Saudi payroll in the kingdom where he is likely to advise the Saudi counterterrorism coordination centre which Saudi kingdom overstated as a 34 countries Islamic Military Alliance.
According to Saudi Arabia, the alliance is formed to fight ISIS and other militant outfits but its credibility and reliability was at stake since Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan are not invited to join it.

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