India, Sept. 23 -- Congress lawmaker MP Shashi Tharoor said that India should not overreact to the recent defence agreement between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. He termed the deal as a formalisation of a long-standing relationship between the two nations.

"Don't forget it is a formalisation of a long-standing arrangement. There was a time when there were 20,000 Pakistani soldiers stationed in Saudi Arabia. Pakistan has long tried to project itself as the sort of enforcement arm of the Muslim world," Tharoor said in an interview with the ANI.

"That kind of relationship has already been very well known to the world. And I don't think that we should overreact," Tharoor said as he cited a statement by the Saudi Crown Prince who allegedly said...