Our nuclear program “will be available” for Saudi Arabia if necessary

Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Mohamed Asf said today, Friday, that the Pakistani nuclear program “will be available” for Saudi Arabia if necessary, according to a new defensive agreement between the two countries signed last Wednesday.

Asif said: “Under the defense agreement with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, if an aggression against Pakistan or Saudi Arabia will be defended, they will be defended together, and other countries can join this arrangement.”

He added, “There is no justification for informing any country of the agreement,” adding that “all our capabilities will be used.”

“We have always talked about arrangements similar to NATO, and I believe that it is the primary right of the countries and peoples of this region, especially Islamic countries, to defend together their region, countries and nations,” Asif said.

“There is no clause in the agreement that prevents any other country from joining or preventing Pakistan from concluding a similar agreement with another country.”

“With regard to the joining of the Arab countries, I cannot answer this prematurely, but I will definitely say that the doors are not closed.”

The statements of Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Mohamed Asf to the Pakistani “Geo” television network are the first specific acknowledgment that Islamabad puts Saudi Arabia under the umbrella of its nuclear weapons.

Pakistan and Saudi Arabia signed a strategic defensive agreement the day before yesterday, Wednesday, stipulating that either of them was an attack as an attack on the other.

The Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Pakistani Prime Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif signed, in Riyadh, yesterday, Wednesday, the joint strategic defense agreement, which stipulated that any attack on any of the two countries is an attack on both of them, and includes developing defense cooperation and enhancing a joint response to any threat.

Saudi Arabia and Pakistan said that the joint strategic defense agreement aims to enhance joint deterrence against any attack, as the agreement states that any attack on any of the two countries is an attack on both.

Saudi Arabia explained that the agreement is comprehensive, and covers all military means, while officials stressed that the timing of the agreement is not a reaction to specific events, but rather the culmination of long discussions that lasted for years between Riyadh and Islamabad.

A statement issued by the office of Pakistan Prime Minister said that the agreement, which reflects the commitment of the two countries to enhance their security and achieve security and peace in the region and the world, aims to develop aspects of defense cooperation between the two countries and enhance joint deterrence against any aggression.