Has The Saudi Arabia-Pakistan Defence Deal Already Failed?
Simon Whistler · November 23, 2025 · 23 min video · Middle East
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When Saudi Arabian crown prince Mohammed bin Salman and Pakistani Prime Minister Shabaz Sharif shared a brotherly embrace in Riyadh in September, it was the culmination of a deal that according to a senior Saudi official had been years in the making. The deal?
A mutual defence pact that upgrades the two nations' existing security partnership into a formal defence pact.
According to CNN, it includes defence industry collaboration, technology transfer and military co-production. It guarantees that any aggression against one nation will be considered aggression against both and will be responded to jointly. Two details made the deal impossible to ignore.
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