Originally Posted by
larssnowpharter
They are believed to have financed the Pakistani programme and the quid pro you had culminated in the Saudi/Pakistan defence pact with its NATO Article 5 equivalent.
lars, was that something a while back, or the more recent deal (September 2025) that I read about in FP?
Originally Posted by FP
September 23, 2025, 4:51 PM
Pakistan and Saudi Arabia signed a
defense pact last week that provides mutual security guarantees. The agreement is likely to have ramifications for South Asia, as it comes at a particularly fraught moment in the region. It follows the short but intense India-Pakistan conflict in May, after a terrorist attack in Indian-administered Kashmir, which New Delhi says was sponsored by Islamabad.
Iran's leadership may see that as a bit of "we are getting surrounded" although I took it as Pakistan shoring up its position
vis a vis India.