{"id":10591,"date":"2026-04-11T15:46:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T15:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/04\/11\/pakistani-fighter-jets-king-abdulaziz-airbase-strategic-defense\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T15:46:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T15:46:38","slug":"pakistani-fighter-jets-king-abdulaziz-airbase-strategic-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/04\/11\/pakistani-fighter-jets-king-abdulaziz-airbase-strategic-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani Fighter Jets Arrive at King Abdulaziz Airbase under Strategic Defense Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Ministry of Defense has announced that a number of Pakistani fighter jets have arrived at King Abdulaziz Airbase as part of the strategic defense agreement between the two countries. The ministry, in a statement posted on its official page on X (formerly Twitter), said the contingent includes Pakistan Air Force combat aircraft and related support equipment. According to the statement, the deployment of these fighter jets is part of the joint defense cooperation between Riyadh and Islamabad. No further details have been provided regarding the exact number of aircraft or the duration of their stay at the base. Saudi Arabia and Pakistan have maintained close military ties over recent years, with their defense cooperation continuing through joint exercises and military experience exchanges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistani fighter jets have arrived at Saudi Arabia&#8217;s King Abdulaziz Airbase as part of a strategic defense agreement between Riyadh and Islamabad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}