India, Oct. 4 -- The Mecca pact is an alignment engineered against non-Islamic states, chiefly India and Israel, while providing China with an unobstructed pathway to choke Taiwan.

When Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan signed the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement on August 7, 2026, grand rhetoric promised an Article 5-style mutual defence breakthrough. Yet, a Houthi drone wave breached Saudi airspace on September 16, intercepted just south of Mecca. While the Royal Saudi Air Force aggressively launched over 1,100 independent retaliatory airstrikes across Yemen to restore domestic deterrence, its treaty allies remained silent. Turkey and Pakistan issued rigid diplomatic communiques advocating for "dialogue," freezing all forward asset and t...