{"id":3967,"date":"2025-12-23T05:37:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T05:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/23\/pakistan-libya-national-army-4-billion-arms-deal-un-embargo\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T05:37:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T05:37:04","slug":"pakistan-libya-national-army-4-billion-arms-deal-un-embargo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/23\/pakistan-libya-national-army-4-billion-arms-deal-un-embargo\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Signs Over $4 Billion Arms Deal with Libya&#8217;s National Army Amid UN Embargo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters has reported that Pakistan has signed an arms contract worth more than four billion dollars with Libya&#8217;s National Army, an agreement reportedly finalized in the city of Benghazi.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, Pakistani security sources stated that the deal was signed between Asim Munir, Pakistan&#8217;s Chief of Army Staff, and Saddam Khalifa Haftar, Deputy Commander of Libya&#8217;s National Army.<\/p>\n<p>The contract comes despite the United Nations imposing an arms embargo on Libya since 2011 due to ongoing civil wars and instability, a development that could provoke extensive international reactions.<\/p>\n<p>Libya&#8217;s National Army has confirmed the agreement, but as of the report\u2019s publication, the Pakistani government has not issued any official statement regarding the deal.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Libya is divided between two rival administrations: one in the west supported by the United Nations, and another in the east and south controlled by the National Army, which does not recognize the legitimacy of the UN-backed government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan signs a $4 billion arms deal with Libya&#8217;s National Army, raising concerns amid the UN arms embargo on Libya since 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3967","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\/3967","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=3967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}