Pakistan says security pact with Saudi Arabia covers ‘comprehensive spectrum’ of defense cooperation

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 minister and Islamabad’s focal person for relations with the Kingdom, said this week, stressing the arrangement was purely defensive in nature. The two countries signed the Strategic Mutual Defense Agreement (SMDA) in Riyadh on Sept. 18, cementing decades-old defense ties into a formal pact.

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