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The Mecca Pact: Alliance or Illusion?
The Mecca Joint Defence Agreement, signed by Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Türkiye, faces what many see as its first real test. Does it signal lost faith in the US as regional security guarantor? Many expected China to fill a US vacuum, so why has the pact gone regional instead? Do members now inherit each other's security challenges and rivalries? And what should India learn, or is it too soon?
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Talmiz Ahmad
Former ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Oman, UAE
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Sharat Sabharwal
India's former high commissioner to Pakistan
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Satarupa Bhattacharjya
Business Standard
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Moderated by
Bhaswar Kumar
Business Standard
14 Oct 2026 02:00 PM IST 
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