Decoding real scope of Saudi, Turkey, and Pakistan’s Mecca pact: New ‘NATO of East?’
Turkiye, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan signed the Mecca Joint Defence Pact on August 7. The trilateral agreement established a coordinated security framework. The promise of the Mecca pact has sparked comparison buzz with NATO, whose members make a similar commitment under Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty. (File Photo/AFP) The arrangement links the Middle…