While Pakistan may have a host of negative attributes, it nevertheless deserves credit for not only brazenly violating international agreements, but also getting away with the same. The latest example of this are media reports regarding Pakistan’s newly promoted Chief of Defence Forces [CDF] Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir approving a $ 4 billion  sale package of military hardware to the Libyan National Army [LNA], a conglomerate comprising fundamentalist militias and foreign mercenaries. 

Readers would recall that during January this year, the United Nations Security Council [UNSC] had vide resolution 2769 [2025], extended the existing arms embargo to “armed actors in Libya” upto May 15, 2026. Expressing “grave concern over continued violations of the arms embargo,” it “demands full compliance by all Member States with the arms embargo” and stipulates that those violating it “are subject to designation.” LNA is an “armed actor,” yet Munir doesn’t seem to care.

The Pakistan army has a long history of disregarding international laws and conventions. Less than three months after its creation, the Pakistan army violated the standstill agreement signed by the Government of Pakistan with the then ruler of J&K by launching an unprovoked military operation in the garb of a tribal invasion to seize control of this region. It made yet another such unsuccessful attempt in 1965 and pushed Pakistan into a full blown war with India. 

Despite these two consecutive reverses, the Pakistan army doesn’t seem to have learnt a lesson as it made yet another attempt in 1999 to alter the Line of Control [LoC] alignment but its troops were forced to retreat after abandoning the dead bodies of........

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