Mecca Pact aims to reshape regional security with trilateral defense alliance
Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkiye formalized the Mecca Defence Alliance, creating a framework for mutual defense, military interoperability, joint exercises and defense-industrial cooperation, with a secretariat based in Riyadh and a clause that an attack on one member will be treated as an attack on all three; the pact currently lacks an integrated command structure and remains open to other states, with potential entrants like Egypt or Gulf states to be decided in future negotiations and ratification.