Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif signed a historic defense agreement on Wednesday (17 September 2025), named Strategic Mutual Defense Agreement. The main condition of this agreement is that if one of the Saudi Arabia or Pakistan is attacked, it will be considered an attack on both countries. That is, both countries will protect each other under shared security.

On the matter, American expert Michael Kulegmen said that it is not just a defense agreement but a strategic message. Pakistan now stands with three big colleagues like China, Turki and Saudi Arabia. However, it is difficult to say that it will stop India from attacking Pakistan. At the same time, West Asia affairs expert Jahak Tanveer says that Pak -Sudi Defense Agreements are not new, even before. In the past, these agreements have been mostly focused on Saudi security, but not on Pakistan. Pakistan’s army has been called the army of fare of Saudi interests many times. However, the possibility of direct military cooperation against India is extremely low.

Historical relations of Pakistan-Saudi Arabia
Pakistan-Saudi Arabia’s relationship is quite old. During the year 1980-88, Pakistan assured Saudi security in the Iran-Iraq War. In 2014-15, Saudi formed an Islamic military alliance, in which the leadership was handed over to former Pakistan Army Chief General Raheel Sharif. Saudi provided financial and diplomatic assistance to Pakistan in the Indo -Pak wars (1965, 1971, Kargil 1999), but did not send the army directly to the Indian front.

Impact on India -Saudi relations
Saudi Arabia never supported terrorism against India. India and Saudi have strong strategic and economic relations (Energy Business, Overseas Indian, Investment). The Saudi official has clearly stated that relations with India will remain strong and contribution to regional peace will continue. India’s Foreign Ministry said, “We are monitoring this agreement and will look at it in terms of global and regional security.”

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On Tuesday (August 19, 2025) in Delhi, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor attended the release ceremony of the book ‘Foggy India-Pakistan Relations Today’. Regarding the Pahalgam terror attack, he said that India did not have much option to react to all this. A few days after Pahalgam, I wrote an OP-Ed while advocating this exactly. I did not realize that anyone in Delhi would read my OP-Aid. This is why I was so supportive of it.

Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor said that in 2019, Balakot and now Operation Sindoor, India has given a very clear message that we will not sit silent against terror. He said that after repeatedly suffering betrayal, there is no longer a desire in India to take the first step towards normalizing relations with Pakistan.

‘Pakistan will have to end terrorism from its land’
Shashi Tharoor, MP from Thiruvananthapuram, appealed Pakistan to demolish the terrorist network operated from his land. He said that from Jawaharlal Nehru’s agreement with Liaquat Ali Khan in 1950 to Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s Lahore bus journey in 1999 and Narendra Modi’s visit to Lahore in 2015, India’s efforts have been cheated only due to enmity from across the border.

He said that in view of the records of Pakistani behavior, he has the responsibility. They have to take the first step to demolish the structure of terrorism on their land.

What did Tharoor say about ceasefire
Regarding the India-Pakistan ceasefire, the Congress MP said that the successful attack on the night of 9-10 May and India’s ability to thwart the Pakistani attempt to send missiles in Delhi on the morning of May 9-10, Pakistani DGMO appealed to the Indian counterpart to peace. Trump has no role in India Pakistan ceasefire.

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Pakistan close airspace for india: After the terrorist attack on tourist on April 22 in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, there is a lot of tension between the two countries in the already sour relationship. On the one hand, where India announced to stop the water being released by putting Pakistan under the Indus Water Agreement, on the other hand, the Pakistan is taking a lot of trouble and making its economy further destroyed by taking bad steps.

Recently, Pakistan announced the closure of the air sector for Indian aircraft. Pakistan hoped that it would give a shock to India by doing such tax. But by doing this, he has actually hit an ax on his leg. This move can cause a big loss to Pakistan, not India but to Pakistan itself. This will stop the earnings of millions of dollars coming to Pakistan

Pakistan killed ax on its leg

Indian aircraft are now adopting any other way instead of Pakistan’s aircraft. Due to this, the charge that the flight passing over a country has to be paid, Pakistan will directly harm it. A Pakistani user shared the video of the flight of Indian aircraft on social media from the second route instead of Pakistan and wrote- ‘And Lo Panga’.

On this post, another user named Naren Menon’s name has commented on it and wrote that this will directly cause financial loss to Pakistan. Menon wrote- Pakistan has lost the overflight charge coming from the world’s third largest aviation market. With this, he was earning crores of dollars every year. Menon further wrote- I would not have seen such stupidity collectively on any land.

Menon told that a large number of aircraft from India, especially from Western countries, like Europeans and North America. In such a situation, Pakistan will be very expensive to stop Indian aircraft. Some users said that Pakistan will still earn money from foreign airlines. On this, Menon told that most of the aircraft from the west side do Indian airlines like Air India and Indigo. In such a situation, Pakistan lost a large part of the earnings coming from the overfly.

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