Pakistan, Kuwait discuss expanded defence pact: report

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Perhaps not, but, even if they did, I don't think India would be interested. They have a long-standing policy of staying out of formal alliances. It did appear the UAE wanted to have a closer and more formal military alliance ,with India, but it was India that resisted getting too close, probably to keep their options open with the Saudis and Iran.

Utter rubbish, I wish Pakistanis would spend 10% of their time reading as they do on commenting. Rather then rehash the media narrative statements designed to define a non-existence reality.

India has never been non-aligned.
India has never been secular.
India have never been anything except a extremist Hindu nation, full-stop.

Before having the guts to attack Pakistan in 1971, nearly 5000km from Pakistan capital, few months prior, they signed a India-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation which in effect was a defence pact and a formal treaty, merely four months before they attacked in December.

That's a formal alliance, a treaty. It was renewed with Russia in the early 1990s. India has been sitting in the Soviet lap since India was created in 1947.

I just wish Pakistanis stop following what they hear and spend just a little, a tiny little bit of their time in independent research and independent reading rather then repeating lazy incorrect narratives.


Over the previous decade or so India has been signing various Foundational Military agreements with America, which amount to a treaty alliance, no matter how you word it.
Before India was a Soviet poodle, now India is an American poodle. That's only difference.

General Security of Military Information Agreement. (GSOMIA)
Logistics Agreement Memorandum of Agreement (LEMOA)
Communications Compatibility and Security Agreement (COMCASA)
Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement (Beca)

It has many other agreements with America, please search yourself it's not difficult in this age, bunch of treaties which combined amount to a formal alliance. The only difference being it's one way, America decides how they function in reality while India is the poodle on a leash.

Apologies for directness but I am tired of Pakistanis repeating Indian lies because they don't spend time just reading, or just paying attention to facts.

 

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That's childish

In a 2006 interview, Pakistan's former Army Chief, General Mirza Aslam Beg, claimed that Pakistan had uncovered an alleged plot involving the United States, Israel, and India to strike Pakistan's nuclear facilities.

According to General Beg, Pakistan responded by sending an emissary to India with a clear deterrent message. He said Pakistan warned India that, regardless of who attacked Pakistan's nuclear facilities, India would be held responsible. General Beg argued that this deterrent posture helped prevent any military strike against Pakistan's nuclear programme.

General Beg said he later shared the same strategic lesson with Iranian officials who came to visit him from the Iranian Embassy. He claimed he advised them to make it clear that, if Iran's nuclear facilities were attacked by any country, Iran should respond by targeting Israel. He presented this as the equivalent deterrent strategy for Iran, drawing a direct comparison with Pakistan's own experience.

14/05/2006: Retired Pakistani general says he told Iran to hit Israel in event of any attack: Taipei Times

 

[Owaiz]

The other perspective is India is hesitant to protect its financial equities within the UAE.

Because the economies are so linked however India does not have the stomach to annoy the Saudis. It's basically decision paralysis, you can only pass-off decision paralysis as wisdom now and again

Fundamentally if you are a big country that has a self perception of heft, even civilizational prestige, always talking about civilizational links....... So what's the issue issue?

Lots of countries have financial equities in the Gulf. Most of them, including the emerging superpower China, do not have forces stationed there. It is really Pakistan that is an exception and that has mostly to do with the dire economic situation. Let us not make a virtue out of a necessity. The reason Pakistan signed the defence pact with Saudi Arabia was mostly for financial incentives and doing so has the consequence of limiting freedom of action in Pakistan's foreign policy towards countries that have issues with Saudi Arabia.

 

[Owaiz]

Utter rubbish, I wish Pakistanis would spend 10% of their time reading as they do on commenting. Rather then rehash the media narrative statements designed to define a non-existence reality.

India has never been non-aligned.
India has never been secular.
India have never been anything except a extremist Hindu nation, full-stop.

Before having the guts to attack Pakistan in 1971, nearly 5000km from Pakistan capital, few months prior, they signed a India-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation which in effect was a defence pact and a formal treaty, merely four months before they attacked in December.

That's a formal alliance, a treaty. It was renewed with Russia in the early 1990s. India has been sitting in the Soviet lap since India was created in 1947.

I just wish Pakistanis stop following what they hear and spend just a little, a tiny little bit of their time in independent research and independent reading rather then repeating lazy incorrect narratives.


Over the previous decade or so India has been signing various Foundational Military agreements with America, which amount to a treaty alliance, no matter how you word it.
Before India was a Soviet poodle, now India is an American poodle. That's only difference.

General Security of Military Information Agreement. (GSOMIA)
Logistics Agreement Memorandum of Agreement (LEMOA)
Communications Compatibility and Security Agreement (COMCASA)
Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement (Beca)

It has many other agreements with America, please search yourself it's not difficult in this age, bunch of treaties which combined amount to a formal alliance. The only difference being it's one way, America decides how they function in reality while India is the poodle on a leash.

Apologies for directness but I am tired of Pakistanis repeating Indian lies because they don't spend time just reading, or just paying attention to facts.

I wish you had followed your own advice instead of going off on a rant against strawman arguments that at least I did not make.

I only said India generally avoids formal military alliances. The treaty with the Soviet Union was the exception that proves the rule. It was signed in August 1971, which was after the Indian government and generals had already fully planned the war in East Pakistan and was meant for the limited purpose of providing defensive insurance against American and Chinese involvement. in that war. Importantly, the treaty was not renewed after it served its purpose and the succesor treaty with Russia left out security guarantees, even though Russia was still India's main security partner at that time.

Of course, India are not non-aligned and they have close defence relationships with America, France, Israel , Russia ( though at a smaler scale than before) and increasingly Japan, Australia and UAE, but they have stayed away from formal treaty-based alliances with any of them. The agreements they have signed do not have any security guarantees or mutual defence clauses.

 

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Pakistan, Kuwait discuss expanded defence pact: report​

• Talks remain at early stage

Published July 17, 2026

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A drone view shows Kuwait City, in the aftermath of strikes by Israel and the U.S. on Iran, in Kuwait, February 28, 2026. REUTERS

ISLAMABAD/RIYADH: Pakistan has been negotiating an expanded defence pact with Kuwait in exchange for energy cooperation and investment, according to five sources with knowledge of the talks.

The talks remain at an early stage, all the sources said, and could still be complicated by heightened tensions between the United States and Iran, said one source.

Reuters reported on Thursday that there were mounting concerns in Islamabad that its mutual defence pact with Saudi Arabia, signed last year, could draw Pakistan into the US-Iran war.

After the Houthi movement launched an attack on Saudi Arabia on Monday, nuclear-armed Pakistan told Iran it would treat attacks on the kingdom as attacks on itself.

Any defence deal with Kuwait, which has come under heavy attacks from Iran this year, would also raise questions about Pakistan’s role in future mediation between the US and Iran.

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Kuwait has had a more limited defence deal with Pakistan for training and joint exercises since 2023. It is now seeking a show of force by Islamabad that would be similar to Pakistan’s pact with Saudi Arabia, including “thousands of Pakistani troops on the ground, fighter jets, drones, an air defence system, and other defence-related facilities,” said a Pakistani government official.

It is unclear whether Pakistan is willing to go this far, given that its agreement with Saudi Arabia was the result of a decades-old close alliance with Riyadh.

“Kuwait’s wish list includes everything,” said a Pakistani security official with knowledge of the talks. “But let me be clear about one thing: We are not and we cannot consider a deployment of combat troops at this stage.”

A Middle Eastern source confirmed that Kuwait has been in conversations with Pakistan, including about defence procurement, but said it was “not clear this will amount to a defence pact per se.”

Reuters spoke to four Pakistani sources and one Middle Eastern source, none of whom was authorised to speak on the record.

Pakistan’s military media wing and Kuwait’s information ministry did not respond to requests for comment.

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Search for defence alternatives

Pakistan and Gulf states have over the past year seen advantages to striking new regional defence pacts.

Pakistan maintains a large military and produces its own fighter jets. This has made it a possible alternative or addition to US protection among Gulf states, as they have grown more wary about the reliability of the US as an ally.

Pakistan is seen in Kuwait as a safe bet, said a source in the Middle East familiar with Kuwait’s security planning.

“They are already in with the Saudis, they have a long history of defence development, they are Muslim Sunni, they have a good relationship with the Americans, so it’s not as sensitive as some other options,” the source said.

Turkey, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have been preparing a draft agreement for a mutual defence pact, separate to the one Islamabad has with Saudi Arabia. Meanwhile, Bahrain is interested in a similar pact, one source said, and Jordan has expressed interest in a weapons and training deal, three sources said.

Barrels for boots

Pakistan has viewed defence deals with neighbouring nations as a way to shore up investments the country urgently needs.

As part of the possible deal with Kuwait, Islamabad would want cooperation on energy security - part of a wider push by Pakistan’s energy ministry to boost its oil and fuel reserves.

Kuwait is exploring a bonded fuel storage with Pakistan that would build on an existing government-to-government diesel supply deal between the two countries, a Pakistani source aware of the talks said.

Such offers could still be sufficiently attractive for Pakistan’s leadership to pursue a larger defence deal, said two sources, adding that negotiations were expected to pick up in speed once US-Iran tensions subside.

Analysts cautioned that this might turn out to be wishful thinking. “Pakistan has to be cognizant of dangers of over-commitment,” said Muhammad Faisal, a South Asia researcher at the University of Technology in Sydney.

Pakistann should only sign a defence pact with Kuwait if it agrees to expelling every last one of US and european soldier and close all of their military bases. Because till these powers are in Kuwait, they will be undermining security of Kuwait to enhance their own interests and that will cause more and more issues for pakistan. Just like in case of KSA, we are supposed to ensure its security but then US forces stationed in KSA and attacking iran which is making KSA target or iran. Which pakistan is supposed to prevent from. We cant afford another KSA like situation out of Kuwait and Qatar as well.