Pakistan's Foreign Ministry announced on April 4 that Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey have signed a joint defense agreement aimed at strengthening security cooperation amid rising military tensions and conflicts in the Middle East.
Under the agreement, an armed attack on any of the three countries will be treated as an attack against all parties.
The pact was unveiled a day after Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, accompanied by Army Chief Asim Munir, visited Saudi Arabia and performed Umrah rituals in Mecca.
On the same day, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan also arrived in Saudi Arabia to meet Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Saudi Arabia has faced multiple attacks from Iran, as well as its Houthi allies in Yemen and Shiite armed groups in Iraq, since the United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran on February 28.
