Saudi-Pak defense partnership : past and present

Abstract EN

An independent academic exercise has been organized to find out the intensity of defense partnership between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan through critically observing the discourse in the press releases of Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) & Pakistan Air Force and reviewing some quite relevant literature from key reports, journals and newspaper articles for just filling the gap of information.

This study tries to answer the question of whether the Saudi-Pak defense partnership is sustainable or not.

It explains that civil and military leadership of KSA and Pakistan are more cohesive and mostly adopt a unified stance on the issue of bilateral defense partnership.

This partnership has been estimated from the historical defense related institutional relationship; recent visits of the civil-military leadership, their points of discussions and commitments; multidimensional joint ventures & defense exercises (army, navy and air force); and from significant recent developments for strengthening the defense of both countries.

It concludes that the top leaderships of both countries are agreed to go to any extent at the time of security crisis either in Pakistan or in KSA.