{"id":74308,"date":"2025-09-18T14:17:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T05:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/18\/saudi-arabia-pakistan-mutual-defence-pact"},"modified":"2025-09-18T14:17:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T05:17:51","slug":"saudi-arabia-and-pakistan-sign-mutual-defence-pact-as-regional-tensions-escalate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74308","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia and Pakistan sign mutual defence pact as regional tensions escalate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deal with nuclear-armed Pakistan comes as Gulf Arab states worry about US reliability while Saudi official says pact isn\u2019t responding to \u2018specific events\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia and nuclear-armed Pakistan have signed a formal mutual defence pact in a move that significantly strengthens a decades-long security partnership amid heightened regional tensions.<\/p>\n<p>The enhanced defence ties come as Gulf Arab states grow increasingly wary about the reliability of the US as their longstanding security guarantor \u2013 concerns heightened by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/12\/israels-strike-on-hamas-leaders-in-qatar-shatters-gulfs-faith-in-us-protection\">Israel\u2019s attack in Qatar<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/18\/saudi-arabia-pakistan-mutual-defence-pact\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deal with nuclear-armed Pakistan comes as Gulf Arab states worry about US reliability while Saudi official says pact isn\u2019t responding to \u2018specific events\u2019Saudi Arabia and nuclear-armed Pakistan have signed a formal mutual defence pact in a move that si&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4984,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1644,3001,1005,212,60,398,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaza","category-hamas","category-israel","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-pakistan","category-saudi-arabia","category-south-and-central-asia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74309,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74308\/revisions\/74309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}