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September 21, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time:4 minutes

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Pakistan and Saudi Arabia Formalize Mutual Defense Pact, Extending Nuclear Cooperation 🇵🇰🤝🇸🇦 ☢️

  • Pakistan and Saudi Arabia signed a formal mutual defense pact on Wednesday.

  • The mutual defense agreement considers an attack on one nation an attack on both.

  • Pakistan’s defense minister announced that the nation's nuclear capabilities "will be made available" to Saudi Arabia.

  • The nuclear dimension of the pact raises the risk of a nuclear war in the Middle East.

  • Analysts view the nuclear move as a signal directed toward Israel.

  • A senior Saudi official stated the agreement is an institutionalization of long-standing cooperation.

  • The pact follows an Israeli attack targeting Hamas leaders in Qatar last week.

  • Israel has not commented on the new Saudi-Pakistan defense agreement.

  • The deal is a comprehensive defensive agreement that includes all military means.

  • Saudi Arabia historically provided financial support to Pakistan’s nuclear weapons program.

Source: Newsweek, The Guardian, and CNN.

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