After decades of cooperation, the recent declaration of a joint security agreement between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan may appear to be merely a formality verifying their continued alliance. But it stands for something much more important.
Bloomberg claims that this agreement is the first concrete indication of what a post-American world marked by greater volatility, uncertainty, and insecurity would look like.
Indeed, the two countries had a close relationship for many years. Two months after Israel won the Six-Day War, in 1967, they inked a security pact whereby the nation’s combat-trained military pledged to help and train the Kingdom. Two years later, Saudi Arabia sent Pakistani pilots to fight communist South Yemen.
