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,…

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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…