Pakistan/Saudi Arabia New Defense Pact Rattles India



A Strategic Mutual Defense Agreement signed by Saudi Arabia and Pakistan on September 17, 2025, has unnerved Indian officials and caused strategic concern for the country of nearly 1.5 billion people.

The pact formalizes a decades-long security partnership with a collective-defense clause stating that "any aggression against either country shall be considered an aggression against both".; with the Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Mohammad Asif emphasizing two days later during a T.V interview that Pakistan's nuclear program "will be made available" to Saudi Arabia if needed under the new defense agreement.
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