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Islamabad: Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar Friday claimed that many countries have shown interest in entering a defence pact with Islamabad and suggested that if more nations join the Saudi-Pakistan mutual defence agreement, then “this will become a NATO-like alliance.”

Addressing the parliament on the issue of the recent Gaza peace plan announced by President Donald

Trump, Dar also talked about the “Strategic Mutual Defence Agreement” officially signed with Saudi Arabia on September 18.

He said that several countries, both Arab and non-Arab Islamic nations, had shown interest in joining the defence agreement

agreed between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. “Many other countries have shown interest in entering a defence pact with Pakistan, with many states approaching Pakist

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