NEW YORK CITY: Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, Pakistan’s permanent representative to the UN, has praised his country’s strategic partnership with Saudi Arabia, describing their recently signed defense cooperation pact as both historic and central to regional security at a time of heightened militant violence.
“This agreement is very significant, but it should be seen as a continuation and solidification of decades of cooperation and a strong strategic alliance between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan,” Ahmad said in a wide-ranging interview with Arab News at the UN Headquarters in New York.
Rooted in “brotherly ties and strategic alignment on regional and global issues,” the partnership has now been placed “into concrete shape,” he said.
Pakistan and Saudi Arabia signed a Strategic Mutual Defense Agreement on Sept. 17 last year, pledging that aggression against one country would be treated as an attack on both, enhancing joint deterrence and formalizing decades of military and security cooperation.
Pakistan and Saudi Arabia signed a Strategic Mutual Defense Agreement on Sept. 17 last year. (SPA)
