Pak’s growing role in Middle East raises concerns in US, Israel

As Pakistan gains greater significance in the Middle East, concerns are likely to grow in the United States over nuclear proliferation in an increasingly volatile region, while prompting Israel to regard Islamabad as a more tangible threat to its security and survival, a report said on Friday.

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"On 17 September 2025, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia signed a ‘strategic mutual defence’ pact, pledging to support one another should either face aggression from a third party. The deal represents a significant shift in the strategic landscape of the Middle East, with Saudi Arabia, a ‘vital US partner’ no longer looking exclusively on Washington for its defence guarantees, Few further details have been made public regarding the agreement, but both sides certainly made the decision with a view to the war in Gaza, prior to its conclusion," a report in "The Geopolitics’, detailed.