Pakistan has information that the hardliner Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government in India plans to once again attack Pakistan at some point and Israel would support it, senior journalist and analyst Hamid Mir has claimed.
“I am telling you with full confidence that the Pakistani government has information that the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Hindu extremist government in India has made another plan to attack Pakistan at some point,” Mir said in a YouTube video, adding that whenever India attacks Pakistan, Israel would support it.
The video comes days after Pakistan and Saudi Arabia signed a mutual defence pact, under which an attack on either country would be considered an attack on both.
The agreement, which Mir said was signed after detailed discussions about prevailing threats from the unholy alliance of India and Israel, followed an Israeli attack on Doha in Qatar, and the interception of a drone above the Holy Mosque in Medina.
The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) late Wednesday night announced the signing of the agreement, which it said reflected the shared commitment of both nations to enhance their security and to achieve security and peace in the region and the world. A statement from the PMO said the pact aims to develop aspects of defence cooperation between the two countries and strengthen joint deterrence against any aggression.
“This is a mini-NATO agreement, and more Muslim Arab countries can join the agreement,” Mir said in the video.
He added that the country already shared a defence cooperation arrangement with China, Türkiye and Azerbaijan. “Whenever Pakistan faces threats from India or any other country, China and Türkiye are the first to stand with Pakistan. Azerbaijan recently stood with Pakistan as well.”
Mir ruled out the claims that a military alliance was being constituted in comparison to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), saying it was being formed to create “deterrence” against the India-Israel alliance.
Meanwhile, Middle East experts have been quoted by foreign media outlets as saying that the agreement between Islamabad and Riyadh could serve as a template for Pakistan to engage in similar bilateral defence cooperation pacts with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Qatar.
Appearing on a private media outlet on Thursday, Pakistani Defence Minister Khawaja Asif also said that “the door had not been closed” and there was a possibility of other countries joining the Pakistan-Saudi Arabia security pact.