Three Years of Silence and Fire: What Manipur
Makkah Pact: Can it become Muslim NATO?
Rcalibration of CT Strategy in Balochistan
SECURITY AT A GLANCE — 16–31 July 2026
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Makkah Pact: Can it become Muslim NATO?
Naveed Elahi
On Friday, 7 August 2026, the leaders of Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey signed a trilateral mutual-defence agreement in Islam’s holiest city Makkah, that binds three of the Muslim world’s heaviest strategic actors into a single security compact. Known as the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement (MJDA), the pact commits each state to treat an armed attack on any one of.
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Three Years of Silence and Fire: What
Makkah Pact: Can it become Muslim NATO?
Rcalibration of CT Strategy in Balochistan
SECURITY AT A GLANCE — 16–31 July
CounterTerrorism
Azhar Rashid Khan PSP*
The International Monetary Fund’s 186-page Governance and Corruption Diagnostic Assessment was completed in July 2025, handed to Pakistan’s government, and promptly buried. It remained concealed for over three months—until the threat of withholding the next $1.2 billion tranche forced its release “in the darkness of night”. This episode reveals an uncomfortable truth about Pakistan’s three-decade relationship with the IMF: we adopt austerity measures not out of conviction, but coercion. Twenty-five programmes later, the patient remains critically ill—not because the diagnosis is wrong, but because the medicine is never properly administered.
Austerity’s False Promise Austerity—the strict economic medicine of tax hikes and.
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Three Years of Silence and Fire: What
Makkah Pact: Can it become Muslim NATO?
Rcalibration of CT Strategy in Balochistan
