The relations remain friendly and bonded throughout its history as both countries share similar religious identities, and cultural links, particularly their Islamic heritage.

[1] During the height of the war with India in 1971, Libyan leader Gaddafi personally directed a strongly worded letter to Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi accusing her of aggression against Pakistan in 1971, which endeared him to all Pakistanis.

[2] In a televised speech given by Gaddafi at the meeting of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, he declared his support for Pakistan to pursue the development of nuclear technology, an issue which had been made a hot-topic by the United States.

[4] At many instance of Gaddafi, Bhutto decided to delegate Libya in its efforts to build its nuclear program, roughly based on Pakistan's motivation.

At an instance of rightist alliance, PNA, a violent civil disobedience movement led the successful imposition of martial law, under codename: Operation Fair Play, at midnight on 4 July 1977.

[5] Such initiatives revealed that President General Zia had strongly hated and distrusted Gaddafi, therefore he immediately cut all the military aid to Libya.

[6] After learning the incident, Gaddafi lashed out at President Zia and began hosting as well as providing military training to far-left terrorist organization, the Al-Zulfiqar, which was established by Bhutto's children.

[8] The general elections held in 1988 resulted in left-wing coming to power and appointing Benazir Bhutto as Pakistan's first female Prime minister.

In 2001, Pakistan via ISI, passed intelligence about Gulf States and the nuclear ambitions of Iran and Libya, whose programs Pakistani scientists had helped to build.

[2] President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz's foreign expertise later helped Pakistan out of international isolation in 2004 due to the quick economic boom.

In February 2011, following the protests in other Arab countries, widespread riots broke out against Gaddafi's 42-year rule resulting in loss of government control over most of eastern Libya.

[12] During the same time, the Arab media circulated news reports alleging involvement of Pakistan military in the events of civil war in Libya, the Foreign Office emphatically stated that these were mischievous and totally baseless.

[13] During the Abu Salim prison massacre remembrance, the Pakistan Embassy in Tripoli was attacked and bombed by the unknown Libyan terror group.