Pakistan’s Strategic Mutual Defence Agreement with Saudi Arabia — signed in September 2025 on the principle that aggression against one is aggression against both — is now being tested by the Iran war. With FM Dar invoking the pact to Tehran, Field Marshal Munir rushing to Riyadh, and nuclear umbrella speculation in the open, the question is whether Pakistan can sustain a two-front posture without the structural reforms and Gulf reciprocity it has never received.
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