Geopolitics
The Badr Pact: Forging an Islamist Axis and the Looming Threat to a Multipolar World
Pakistan has signed the quadrilateral Badr Pact with Türkiye, Qatar, and Indonesia, deepening defense manufacturing and R&D cooperation, marking its latest in a series of security pacts with key Muslim nations in West Asia. This burgeoning Islamist military-industrial axis, actively supported by a state that has long been the epicenter of cross-border terrorism against India, represents a grave strategic threat to regional stability and the sovereignty of civilizational states, and is a direct challenge to the growing multipolar order led by the global south.
