Pak-Saudi-Turkiye defence pact ‘entirely for defensive purposes’, not aggression: PM Shehbaz

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday affirmed that the recently signed Makkah Joint Defence Agreement was “entirely for defensive purposes”, and not for any aggression. The joint defence agreement, signed on August 7 between Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkiye, aims to strengthen collective deterrence and empowers its signatory states to treat an attack against one of them as an attack against all of them. Addressing the federal cabinet on Monday, PM Shehbaz recalled that he, Saudi Crown Princ...