{
  "id": 559172,
  "title": "‘Islamic Nato’? Why Pakistan’s new defence pact has India on edge",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/11/islamic-nato-why-pakistans-new-defence-pact-has-india-on-edge",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-11T10:40:46.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3363675/islamic-nato-why-pakistans-new-defence-pact-has-india-edge"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A new defence pact between Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey has raised questions in New Delhi over whether Islamabad could use the agreement to build wider security ties with Muslim-majority countries in India’s neighbourhood, analysts have said. The Mecca Joint Defence Agreement, signed on Friday, states that an armed attack on any one of the three countries would be treated as an attack on all…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "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."
}