Pakistan signed the Baghdad Pact in 1955, a military alliance originally between Iraq, Turkey, Pakistan, Iran, and the United Kingdom. After Iraq withdrew in 1959, the pact was renamed CENTO (Central Treaty Organization). The alliance aimed to prevent Soviet expansion into the Middle East and South Asia during the Cold War.
When Pakistan signed the Baghdad pact, later called CENTO?
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