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.

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,…

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

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…

When Saudi Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman declared on social media that “Saudi Arabia and Pakistan stand as one front against any aggressor — always and forever,” he…