# Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Türkiye meet: What comes next for their defence pact?

https://mins.news/en/item/38753

- Al Jazeera, 2026-08-31 12:57 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/31/pakistan-saudi-arabia-turkiye-meet-whats-next-for-their-defence-pact?traffic_source=rss

> Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Türkiye have named their new mutual-defence arrangement the Mecca Defence Alliance and established a strategic political and defence committee. The group will work on military interoperability, joint exercises, defence-industrial cooperation and counterterrorism, while its structure and the circumstances for invoking mutual defence remain unclear.

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