ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s defense pact with Saudi Arabia will provide a foundation for peace in South Asia and the Middle East, opening the door for other Arab states to join as well, Coordinator to the Prime Minister Rana Ihsan Afzal said this week. Pakistan and Saudi Arabia signed a Strategic Mutual Defense Agreement (SMDA) in Riyadh this week, pledging that aggression against one country would be treated as an attack on both.

More than half a century of defense partnership between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan reached a new peak when Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif signed…

KARACHI: Pakistan’s recent defense pact with Saudi Arabia can help Islamabad stabilize its economy via increased jobs, sharing of technology and exports to the Kingdom, defense…

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar said on Friday several countries had expressed interest in signing a security pact with his country after it concluded a…

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s defense pact with Saudi Arabia will provide a foundation for peace in South Asia and the Middle East, opening the door for other Arab states to join as well,…

Riyadh looking to ‘put its eggs in different baskets’ given doubts over US commitment in the region, analysts say.

A Pakistan-Saudi defence agreement pledging a mutual response to any aggression raises concerns in India.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is celebrating the Saudi National Day today, Tuesday, with greater zeal after both countries signed a landmark defense agreement this month, official said,…

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s newly signed security pact with Saudi Arabia is a NATO-style agreement covering a “comprehensive spectrum” of defense cooperation, Musadiq Malik, a federal…

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani political leaders, at a ceremony in Islamabad to mark Saudi Arabia's 95th National Day, on Tuesday hailed a recent defense pact between Pakistan and the…