{
  "id": 1448282,
  "title": "Pak PM Shehbaz Sharif Thanks Trump For Backing Makkah Defence Pact, Hails Role In Averting 'Nuclear Catastrophe'",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/17/pak-pm-shehbaz-sharif-thanks-trump-for-backing-makkah-defence-pact",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-17T07:18:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/world/pak-pm-shehbaz-sharif-thanks-trump-for-backing-makkah-defence-pact-hails-role-in-averting-nuclear-catastrophe"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has thanked US President Donald Trump for his supportive remarks on the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement signed by Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkiye in Mecca on August 7, 2026. The agreement introduces a collective defence mechanism under which an armed attack against any one of the three signatories would be treated as an attack against all. The pact seeks…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}