The unveiling of a strategic mutual defence agreement between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia on September 17, 2025, sent a geopolitical tremor through world capitals, a shockwave whose aftershocks promise ...

The Pakistan-Saudi Arabia Military Agreement really does not create any new commitments between the two countries, but it represents a reversion for Pakistan to a bygone era, when it was part of CENTO ...

Former Union Minister of State for External Affairs and Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday stated that Pakistan had successfully convinced the United States that both nations were aligned in ...

Asia faces rising security challenges from China’s assertiveness, North Korea’s nuclear program and regional coercion, prompting debate over a NATO-style alliance. Past attempts, like SEATO, failed ...

In the arena of global diplomacy, where visible gestures are often decoys and true intentions remain hidden, last week’s overture of US President Donald Trump towards Pakistan’s army chief, General ...

The roar of modern war’s destroying engines shook the gilded spires and jeweled pagodas of many-templed Bangkok last week. In answer to the Thai government’s invitation, SEATO nations were staging ...

The exercise was billed grandly as SEATO’s “first joint international sea, air and land maneuvers.” Thailand, which thought it up, declared that all eight nations had been invited to participate. The ...

The recent calls from Japanese Prime Minister (PM) Shigeru Ishiba to form Asian North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) demonstrate anxieties in Indo-Pacific countries about managing China’s rise ...

The leaders of several SEATO countries in front of the Congress Building in Manila, hosted by Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos on October 24, 1966. SEATO, also known as the “Manila Pact,” was an ...

Communist China’s panic over the North Atlantic Treaty might seem absurd. Then again, too, the comrades have a long memory. Is NATO’s turn to the Pacific stirring echoes of what has been called the ...