Pakistan Fully Supports Arab Countries Forming NATO-like Security Forces

Pakistan's Supreme Commander of the Army (COAS) is encouraging the Pakistan Army's Serang Mangla Corps. (X Pakistan Armed Forces News @PakistanFauj)

JAKARTA - Pakistan supports the idea of forming an Arab collective security force with a NATO-like model following the Israeli act of attacking the territory of the Qatar state.

Deputy Prime Minister (PM) as well as Pakistan's Minister of Foreign Affairs (Menlu) Ishaq Dar said his country was ready to play a role while highlighting its conventional military capabilities.

"Why not? What's wrong with it? They should [have such troops]. And according to their own capacity and strength, they should create some kind of [restriction] mechanism," Dar told Al Jazeera ahead of the Arab-Islam emergency summit in Doha, Qatar.

Dar added, strengthening multilateralism is very important to ensure peace for everyone by implementing institutional reforms in the United Nations (UN).

Israel attacked settlements in Doha, Qatar, under the pretext of targeting a group of Hamas leaders on September 9, 2025.

On the one hand, Qatar is the main mediator in ceasefire negotiations and the release of hostage-taking between the two parties in conflict in Palestine, Israel and Hamas.