Fahad Ahmed Misson

Diligence

[South Asia Index @SouthAsiaIndex]

“Pakistan is not just a nuclear & missile power; it also has highly capable armed forces. Inrecent war, Pakistan defeated India. It also manufactures everything from tanks to fighter aircrafts.”

- Saudi TV after Mecca Agreement

[Ishtiaq Ahmad @ahmadishtiaq]

The Makkah Agreement: A new architecture for regional security

Former Saudi ambassador to Pakistan, Dr Ali A Asseri, argues, "Saudi Arabia seeks peaceful relations with its neighbors and has no interest in creating new divisions in an already troubled region."
https://t.co/WM6rXt9cQA

[Attaullah Tarar @TararAttaullah]

Islamabad glows in brotherhood as the flags of Pakistan, Türkiye and Saudi Arabia adorn Constitution Avenue, while LED screens celebrate the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement. A fitting tribute to the vision and teamwork of PM Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir. 🇸🇦🇹🇷🇵🇰

[Prof. Dr. Zafar Nawaz Jaspal @zafar_jaspal]

Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkiya Defense Agreement

[Islamabad Policy Research Institute @IPRI_Pak]

IPRI Publications|
Kashmir Factsheet 1947-2021: The Indisputable Facts - 2nd Edition

Take a look back at our publication - a short compendium of facts germane to the dispute starting from its inception to post August 5 developments is expected to act as a useful primer for all those who wish to consult the essential facts in a single volume. The first edition was published in September 2020.

https://t.co/bH7CcheWxP

[Kamran Yousaf @Kamran_Yousaf]

Only a few years ago, Pakistan was caught in the awkward middle as Saudi Arabia and Turkey drifted apart, while Gulf states including Riyadh were deepening ties with India.

The tables have turned.

From reviving its strategic partnership with Saudi Arabia to bringing Turkey into a trilateral defence arrangement, Pakistan has managed to rebuild old alliances and reshape the regional equation.

[Umar Saif @umarsaif]

What Pakistan has pulled off diplomatically is extraordinary — and should be studied as a case study in international relations.

Islamabad has managed to remain deeply aligned with China, retain exceptionally close ties with Saudi Arabia and Türkiye, rebuild relevance in Washington, and at the same time keep a working relationship with Tehran.

Think about how unusual that is. These are countries whose interests frequently collide, yet Pakistan has resisted being boxed into a single geopolitical camp.

In an era defined by blocs, sanctions, rivalries and demands to choose sides, Pakistan has created strategic space for itself across nearly every major axis of power that matters to it.

That is not diplomatic balancing at the margins. It is geopolitical leverage.

[Mushahid Hussain Sayed @Mushahid]

This Defense Pact is a welcome & timely development at a crucial moment of turbulence & transformation. Coming soon after Pakistan’s pivotal role in brokering ‘Islamabad MoU’ between Iran & USA + launch of R-4 as a Diplomatic Coordination Mechanism which includes Pakistan, Turkiye, Saudi Arabia & Egypt, today’s Pact has a 3-fold significance. This is the first Pan-Islamic military institutional initiative among 3 key Muslim countries, independent of the West. Second, this Muslim Defense Pact is big blow to Israel & ‘Abraham Accords’, as it would be an effective counter to Israeli expansionism. Third, it’s good for Pakistan’s security, given the emerging India-Israeli Axis, which has backing of some regional regimes as well!

[Çetiner Çetin @cetiner_cetin]

Mekke Anlaşmasının Özeti:

170 nükleer savaş başlığı 🇵🇰
G20 üyeliği 🇸🇦🇹🇷
OPEC liderliği 🇸🇦
NATO üyeliği ve NATO’nun en büyük ordularından biri 🇹🇷
Toplam 3 trilyon dolarlık ekonomik büyüklük 🇵🇰🇸🇦🇹🇷
1.000 savaş uçağı 🇵🇰🇸🇦🇹🇷
Ordularda toplam 2 milyon personel 🇸🇦🇹🇷🇵🇰
7.000 tank 🇸🇦🇹🇷🇵🇰
90 bin zırhlı araç 🇸🇦🇹🇷🇵🇰
34 denizaltı 🇹🇷🇵🇰
500 savaş ve deniz platformu 🇸🇦🇹🇷🇵🇰
Toplam 4 milyon kilometrekare yüzölçümü 🇸🇦🇹🇷🇵🇰
Yakında Suudi Arabistan ve Türkiye için F-35 🇸🇦🇹🇷

[Mosharraf Zaidi 🇵🇰 @mosharrafzaidi]

Anyone remotely serious about governance reform in Pakistan needs to read this book.

It carries in it the actual blueprint of the changes Mao and his successors made to the Chinese administrative state that transformed state and society and fueled China’s incredible economic story.

TLDR: the DNA of bureaucratic incentives at the local level must be economy-first

[Ashok Swain @ashoswai]

Pakistan and Turkey are in Saudi Arabia to sign a trilateral defense pact - Pakistan a nuclear power, Saudi Arabia the oil power and Turkey a NATO member. For Modi’s stupid alliance with Netanyahu, it is not anymore for India two fronts, now 5 fronts!

[Russia's Pivot to Asia @RussiasPivot]

Pakistan Eyes Eurasian Economic Union Free Trade Agreement
https://t.co/hYIS0PATzL
Pakistan's Ambassador to Russia, Faisal Niaz Tirmizi, has said that Pakistan will complete a Free Trade Agreement with the Eurasian Economic Union anytime within the next two years. We provide a breakdown of Pakistan's current trade with the EAEU countries.

[Digital Communication Department @DCDPakistan]

ایک مضبوط شراکت داری...
ایک مشترکہ وژن…
ایک محفوظ اور مستحکم خطے کے لیے مشترکہ عزم۔

مکہ مشترکہ دفاعی معاہدہ پاکستان، سعودی عرب اور ترکیہ کے درمیان دفاعی تعاون کے ایک نئے باب کا آغاز ہے۔

#MakkahDefenceAgreement
#PakistanSaudiTürkiye

[Khalid bin Salman خالد بن سلمان @kbsalsaud]

The Makkah Joint Defense Agreement between KSA, Pakistan, and Turkey 🇸🇦🇵🇰🇹🇷 establishes a framework for a long-term defense partnership, enhancing deterrence, coordination, and integration between our countries, and contributing to regional and global security and stability.

[Dr. Brahma Chellaney @Chellaney]

Pan-Islamic Framing of Saudi-Turkish-Pakistani Mutual Defense Pact

The Mecca Joint Defense Agreement, signed today, establishes a mutual defense pact ("an attack on one is an attack on all") among Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan, marking a potentially significant shift in the regional security architecture stretching from the Arabian Sea to the Mediterranean.

The agreement's explicit reference to "Islamic solidarity," together with the choice of Mecca as the signing venue, lends the new defense arrangement a distinctly pan-Islamic character.

Given Turkey's military assistance to Pakistan during India's May 2025 Operation Sindoor — particularly in uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) and electronic warfare — the tripartite alliance carries important geopolitical and strategic implications for India, including greater complexity for deterrence and escalation management in future conflicts. Although China provided substantially greater military assistance to Pakistan during Operation Sindoor, Turkey's direct support underscored Ankara's willingness to back Islamabad in a conflict with India.

Any future Indian punitive strike against terrorist infrastructure or military targets in Pakistan, akin to Operation Sindoor, could, at least in theory, be portrayed by Islamabad as an act of war warranting invocation of the pact's collective-defense provisions.

Regardless of whether such provisions are ever invoked, the agreement institutionalizes a trilateral framework combining Saudi capital, Turkish defense technology and Pakistan's strategic geography, potentially accelerating joint defense R&D and intelligence sharing.

Although a mutual defense clause does not automatically guarantee military intervention, its existence could nonetheless complicate India's strategic calculus by introducing additional uncertainty into crisis planning and deterrence.

With all three members of the new pact situated along critical maritime chokepoints and major sea-lanes of communication, India has fresh reason to prioritize naval expansion. The maritime disruptions triggered by Trump's Iran war have already underscored the strategic importance of securing the surrounding oceans.

[Recep Tayyip Erdoğan @RTErdogan]

Bugün Suudi Arabistan Veliaht Prensi ve Başbakanı Muhammed bin Selman’ın nazik davetine icabetle Mekke-i Mükerreme’ye bir ziyaret gerçekleştirdik.

Ziyaretimde aziz kardeşlerim Suudi Arabistan Veliaht Prensi ve Başbakanı Muhammed bin Selman ve Pakistan Başbakanı Şahbaz Şerif’le bir araya geldik.

Bu vesileyle üç ülke olarak Ortak Savunma Anlaşması imzaladık.

Kolektif caydırıcılığı temel alan bu anlaşma, güvenlik ve savunma iş birliğimizin ilerletilmesine, savunma sanayisinde ortak projeler geliştirilmesine ve terörizmle mücadeleye katkı sağlayacaktır.

BM Şartı’nın 51’inci maddesinde tanımlanan savunma hakkını da teyit eden anlaşma, hiçbir ülkeyi hedef almadığı gibi bölgemizin huzurunu, refahını ve istikrarını amaçlayan tüm kardeş ülkelerin katılımına açıktır.

Türkiye, bölgesel sahiplenme vizyonu doğrultusunda çatışma ve krizlerin uluslararası hukuka saygı temelinde, diyalog ve diplomasiyle çözüme kavuşturulmasına yönelik ilkeli tutumunu kararlılıkla sürdürecektir.

Ziyaretimizin, istişarelerimizin ve imzaladığımız anlaşmanın tüm bölgemiz için hayırlara vesile olmasını Rabb’imden niyaz ediyorum.

[Adeel Kazmi @SAdKazmi]

@ghazalawahab Dear Sir/Madam,
I hope you are doing well.
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[Nokhaiz Sahi @Sahi07NYC]

پاکستان- سعودی عرب اور ترکیہ کے درمیان مشترکہ دفاعی معاہدہ۔ ایک پر حملہ سب پر تصور ہو گا۔

[Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri @Zhchaudhri]

A significant development that would contribute to regional peace and security - 🇵🇰 🇸🇦 🇹🇷

[وزارة الخارجية 🇸🇦 @KSAMOFA]

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