Pakistan’s army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, was in Tehran this week for the second time in a week, this time alongside Saudi Arabia’s defence minister and Turkiye’s intelligence chief, in a meeting that brought the three members of the Makkah defence pact face to face with Iranian leaders for the first time since Houthi...
Senior officials from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Türkiye are meeting in Riyadh today for the Strategic Political and Defence Committee of the Makkah Defence Alliance, the first meeting of its kind called in response to a security crisis since the pact was signed two months ago. The session was announced at short notice after a...
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s announcement that Pakistan would host the signing ceremony of a US-Iran peace agreement in Geneva marked one of the more striking diplomatic moments of his tenure, and it continues to shape the government’s political narrative weeks later. Addressing the National Assembly shortly after news broke of the agreement, Sharif described the...