When Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkiye signed the Makkah Joint Defense Agreement on Aug. 7, the three countries provided concrete evidence of a push toward regional strategic autonomy — new alignments that augment, but do not replace, existing security arrangements dealing with heightened threats.

The Mecca Pact seeks to strengthen regional security, strategic autonomy and collective deterrence amid growing instability in the Middle East

NEW YORK CITY: Pakistan’s permanent representative to the UN, Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, described a newly signed trilateral defense agreement between Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkiye…