KARACHI: Pakistan’s Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Syed Aamer Raza met Saudi Arabia’s top military leadership in Riyadh to discuss expanding defense cooperation under a strategic framework between the two countries, the Pakistan military said on Friday.
The meeting came nearly two months after Pakistan and Saudi Arabia signed a joint defense security pact, pledging that an attack on one country would be treated as an attack on both.
The Strategic Mutual Defense Agreement was signed in September and further solidified decades of Saudi-Pakistan security cooperation covering areas such as intelligence-sharing, counterterrorism and regional stability.
“Lt. Gen. Syed Aamer Raza, Chief of General Staff (CGS) Pakistan Army, called on General Fayyadh Bin Hameed Al-Rowaily, Chief of General Staff, Royal Saudi Armed Forces, at Riyadh,” the military’s media wing, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), said in a statement.
“During the meeting, matters of mutual strategic interest were discussed, with a special focus on strengthening bilateral defense cooperation, enhancing interoperability and advancing collaboration under the Strategic Mutual Defense Agreement,” it added.
