It’s a different story in months to years because presumably the war would be over one way or another. But negotiating these pacts before a war or during a war is bad optics.
who Pakistan decides to have military cooperation with is their own choice. But Defense pacts should be strategic and by their nature rare.
It appears with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and now Kuwait that Pakistan is at least willing to entertain the thought of selling its military capabilities in exchange for oil and “promises” of economic investment (loans?).
This is strange in the world of defense pacts and there probably isn’t a situation where a regional power has signed defense pacts with other neighbor countries in exchange for money and oil.
Also lastly this can be interpreted by Iran as a covert way to build an “Arab NATO” by first signing individual agreements before announcing the entire picture. Wether Pakistan realizes this or not.
For Pakistan this is a one way defense pact regardless of the what the pact says. None of these Arab countries will come to the aid of the Pakistan if it were to get into a hot war with India. They will bend the knee to America and Israel.
Pakistan trusting these Persian Gulf Arabs is very dangerous if the winds were to one day blow against Pakistan they will all disappear.
