The leaders of several SEATO countries in front of the Congress Building in Manila, hosted by Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos on October 24, 1966. SEATO, also known as the “Manila Pact,” was an ...

The exercise was billed grandly as SEATO’s “first joint international sea, air and land maneuvers.” Thailand, which thought it up, declared that all eight nations had been invited to participate. The ...

A: Both organizations went kaput-o in the late '70s. The Southeast Asia Treaty was formed in 1954 with the aim of blocking the spread of communism in the region. Eight nations were members. But only ...

Australia, India, Japan, Singapore and the USA held a joint Naval Exercise in the Bay of Bengal in the first week of September2007. Naval exercises are held around the world all around the year as ...

KARACHI: India, by accepting joint air defence with the Western Powers, has become the first independent Asian country to grant air bases to the Americans. Like the latest US-India 1000 kw transmitter ...

ISLAMABAD: The Government of Pakistan yesterday [Nov 8] announced its decision to formally withdraw from the South East Asia Treaty Organisation (SEATO). The statuary notice of denunciation of the ...

In Saigon last week, South Viet Nam’s embattled President Ngo Dinh Diem was forced to a bitter admission. In the wake of Communist assaults on fortified posts and provincial centers, Diem confessed ...