India, Aug. 9 -- "Vulgus amicitias utilitate probat," said Ovid, the celebrated - and exiled - Latin poet writing roughly around the time of Christ. Ordinary people forge friendships purely based on utility, is what it means. Pakistan perhaps knows its Ovid well. Should India, then, be worried about the trilateral defence agreement signed in Mecca on August 7 by Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey? The answer depends on who is asking the question and who is answering it. While the pact deserves more than the familiar "closely following developments" handout from the ministry of external affairs (MEA), there is certainly no need for alarmism. The Mecca pact, in essence, formally binds Pakistan, a nuclear power, to two of the Islamic world's ...