Published on, Sept. 23 -- September 23, 2025 2:47 AM

Israel's recent airstrikes on Doha have shaken the Arab world to its core, exposing the fragility of regional security and the indifference of the West to Arab sovereignty. While the United States, the self-proclaimed guardian of global order, chose silence in the face of this aggression, the Muslim world has been forced into a reckoning: either remain fragmented under the weight of Israeli military superiority or forge new alignments that can credibly deter further escalation. In this context, the Pakistan-Saudi Defence Pact emerges not merely as a bilateral agreement but as the potential cornerstone of a broader Muslim defence axis, one rooted both in geopolitical necessity and deep ...