Weeks after signing a trilateral defence pact with Pakistan and Saudi Arabia in Mecca, Turkish President Erdogan carried Islamabad's Kashmir argument to the floor of the United Nations General Assembly, framing the disputed territory as a matter for international resolution. The gesture was not merely rhetorical: it marked a formal convergence of Ankara's diplomatic voice with Pakistan's strategic interests, extending a security treaty into the realm of territorial politics. For India, which has long insisted that Kashmir is an internal matter governed by the bilateral Shimla Agreement, the sp