Observers say diverging strategic interests and a weak mutual security capacity will be the main challenges facing the agreement.

Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey signed a Nato-style mutual defence agreement in Mecca on August 7, declaring that "any armed attack against any one of the three states shall be…

By locating the agreement in Mecca and framing it around Sunni-majority states, the bloc can be interpreted as a religiously infused security grouping. | India News