warontherocks.com/the-mecca-pact-and-pakistans-bid-to-become-indispensable The Mecca Pact and Pakistan’s Bid to Become Indispensable
Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey just turned an informal security arrangement into a NATO-style mutual defense pact, and weeks later invoked it. A Pakistani official says Pakistani jets are already striking Houthi targets, reversing Islamabad's 2015 refusal to join the Yemen war.
— via War on the Rocks, Muhib Rahman
