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 formally assumed the chairmanship of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation on behalf of Pakistan on Tuesday, using his address at the SCO Council of Heads of State summit in Bishkek to lay out the country’s priorities for its one-year term, from artificial intelligence and energy cooperation to poverty reduction and disaster management....
Since the war began on 28 February with the joint American and Israeli strikes that killed Iran’s supreme leader, Pakistan’s position has not moved an inch on paper. The Foreign Office has condemned the strikes on Iran. It has condemned Iran’s retaliatory strikes on the Gulf states. It has repeated, briefing after briefing, that there...
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...