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Saudi, Pakistani and Turkish military chiefs meet in Riyadh under Makkah defense pact
Hours before the Saturday intercepts, military chiefs of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey reviewed threats facing the kingdom at a meeting in Riyadh under the Makkah Joint Defense Agreement the three countries signed last month, The National reported, citing Saudi statements. Saudi Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman said early Saturday he had met Pakistan’s army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, in Riyadh to discuss continued joint efforts against attacks on the kingdom under the pact, which treats an armed attack on one signatory as an attack on all. Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif told the U.N. General Assembly on Friday that any threat to the safety of Islam’s two holiest mosques in Makkah and Madinah was “a red line that must never be crossed.”
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