Zia Ur Rehman
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Houthi attacks expose gaps in Pakistan's defence pact with Saudi Arabia (opens the original)
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After positioning itself as a regional mediator by facilitating talks between Washington and Tehran, Pakistan marked a major milestone in its expanding diplomacy last month: the signing of a trilateral defence pact with Saudi Arabia and Turkey in Islam’s holiest city. Signed in Mecca on 7 August, the Joint Defence Agreement states that an attack on one signatory will be treated as an attack on all, drawing immediate comparisons to Nato’s Article 5, even as analysts cautioned against taking the c
Five years of Taliban rule: A state has survived, but at what cost? (opens the original)
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Five years after the Taliban’s return to power on 15 August 2021, Afghanistan has transformed from a chaotic battlefield into a functioning but deeply authoritarian state. Foreign troops are gone, and fragmented opponents have failed to mount a significant challenge to Kabul’s centralised control. The movement has established a degree of internal security unimaginable under the previous government. However, this stability rests on systematic exclusion, most notably of women, leaving the nation e
What Pakistan's defence pact with Saudi Arabia and Turkey means for the Middle East (opens the original)
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A new security pact between Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey is reshaping the Middle East's strategic map, bringing together three of the Muslim world's most influential powers under a collective defence framework. Named after the holy city where it was signed on Friday, the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement stipulates that an attack against one member is an attack against all three. Echoing Nato's Article 5, the clause gives the pact immediate geopolitical significance, even as the joint statement
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