Pakistan and Saudi Arabia on Wednesday inked a landmark Strategic Mutual Defence Agreement, elevating their long-standing ties into a binding security partnership. This agreement, which...

Despite the grand rhetoric in Islamabad, the Saudi-Pakistan defence agreement is far from the security guarantee Pakistan imagines it to be

Saudi Arabia and nuclear-armed Pakistan have signed a mutual defense pact that regards any attack on either nation as an attack on both in the wake of Israel's strike on Qatar. Saudi Arabia long has had close economic, religious and security ties to Pakistan, including reportedly providing funding for Islamabad's…

New Delhi says it was already aware that the development was under consideration.

Official spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said, “We have seen reports of the signing of a strategic mutual defense pact between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan

Saudi Arabia and nuclear-armed Pakistan signed a mutual defence pact late on Wednesday, significantly strengthening a decades-old security partnership a week after Israel's strikes on Qatar upended the diplomatic calculus in the region. Asked whether Pakistan would now be obliged to provide Saudi Arabia with a nuclear umbrella, a senior Saudi official told Reuters: "This is a comprehensive defensive agreement that encompasses all military means."