# Mutual defence: Alliances that came before the Turkiye-Pakistan-Saudi pact

https://mins.news/en/item/22248

- Al Jazeera, 2026-08-14 14:19 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/14/mutual-defence-the-alliances-that-preceded-turkiye-pakistan-saudi-pact?traffic_source=rss

> After Turkiye, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia signed a joint defence agreement, Ankara disclosed plans for joint military exercises and deeper defence-industry cooperation. The pact treats an armed attack on any one member as an attack on all three, echoing NATO’s Article 5. The article compares this arrangement with other alliances and their mixed records.

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