Islamabad: Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed today released the first comprehensive research report on the significance and implications of the Pakistan-Saudi Defence Agreement, prepared by the Pakistan-China Institute, the think tank he heads, on ‘Pakistan & Saudi Arabia: Muslim World’s Strategic Security Partners’. The 31-page report carries a Foreword by Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed, Key Points of the Report, as well as significance, implications and the geopolitical context of the historic Pakistan-Saudi Arabia Defence Agreement of 17 September, 2025. The report also contains a Fact Sheet on major diplomatic events on the Pakistan-Saudi relations as well as key military agreements and Pakistan’s track record in providing security support to Muslim countries in the Middle East. Senator Mushahid Hussain said this landmark defense agreement was the result of ‘two key decision-makers: Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir and Saudi Crown Prince & Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), who’s a Muslim reformer, rapidly transforming Saudi Arabia, just like Deng Xiaoping did for China’. He added that MBS has the potential to be the ‘most consequential leader of Saudi Arabia since King Faisal’.
Launching the report at a media interaction here today in Islamabad, Senator Mushahid Hussain cited three fundamental reasons for this defence agreement. Pakistan’s new image and enhanced diplomatic role following the May 2025 victory over India, coupled with the changing geopolitical landscape of the Middle East, namely, rising threat of ‘Greater Israel’ aggression, now viewed as the main threat to Muslim countries, and loss of confidence in American security guarantees. He said, this agreement with Saudi Arabia, is ‘historic and significant because after 50 years, Pakistan is again playing a military role in the Middle East as a net security provider for the Muslim world’s most important country, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’. He recalled during the October 1973 Arab-Israeli War, when Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was Prime Minister, PAF pilots flying in combat against Israel on behalf of the Air Force of Syria and Egypt, even shot down an Israeli war plane. He added, then, with the sponsorship of King Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan hosted a special Islamic Summit at Lahore in 1974, where the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), under Yasser Ararat, was accorded recognition as the sole legitimate representative of the people of Palestine for the first time.
Explaining the timing of the Pakistan-Saudi Arabia Defence Agreement, Senator Mushahid Hussain cited three reasons for the timing of this agreement. First, the Israeli aggression against Qatar, which is a country allied with the United States and which is a peaceful country, where Israel and the United States had been meeting representatives of the Palestine resistance movement, Hamas. This showed that Israel has designs of imposing its hegemony in the region through military force, as part of its ‘Greater Israel’ designs. Qatar is the 6th Muslim country that Israel has launched aggression against, following Palestine, Iran, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen.
Second, he said, ‘Pakistan emerged as a security alternative in the Middle East after the vacuum created by the US failure to prevent or oppose the Israeli attack on Qatar.’ This was a turning point in Middle East politics, he added, because Qatar also hosts the largest American military base in the region and the United States was committed to protect the security of Qatar through its military forces and technology, a role which the US failed to play, thereby indicating that the United States could no longer be relied upon as a protector of the security of friendly Muslim countries in the region’. He added: ‘ This security vulnerability of Gulf states has been reinforced after the Qatar attack, because, earlier in 2019, Saudi Arabia’s oil........

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