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After years of dwindling global significance, the year 2025 dramatically elevated Pakistan’s global profile. This was largely through a security lens thanks to a brief but game-changing military skirmish in May with India in which Islamabad held its own and thwarted a numerically superior Delhi. In over 50 public instances since then, American President Trump has repeatedly indicated that Pakistan won the first formal air combat between the two nuclear neighbors in five decades.

By year’s end, Islamabad had reinforced military partnerships, expanded its defense export footprint and consolidated strategic ties with key global powers, projecting an image of a state that could still matter on geopolitics despite enduring internal turbulence. This roster included a strategic mutual defense pact with Saudi Arabia, and defense deals centered around with selling its signature JF Thunder combat planes with Bangladesh, Libya, Iraq, Indonesia, Nigeria and Azerbaijan.

Islamabad has also been figuring centrally in the unfolding post-ceasefire security and political arrangement in Gaza, as well as working with diplomatically significant Eurasian blocs like Economic Cooperation Organization and Shanghai Cooperation Organization, as well as Organization of Islamic Cooperation on preventing current global military risks from flaring up. 

Now at the onset........

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