November 9 – Dawn report by Iftikhar A. Khan states that Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has told the Senate in clear terms that Pakistan will not send troops to Yemen to lend support to the Saudi-led forces engaged in fighting there. Speaking in the upper house of parliament on Wednesday, he said Pakistan enjoyed friendly relations with both ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ and Iran and was trying to play a mediatory role between them.