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John Kerry, then-Secretary of State, at the pavilion of the Army GHQ in 2015. The General Headquarters (abbreviated Army GHQ: 230 [2] [3] [4]) is the direct reporting and the command post of the Pakistan Army, located in the Chaklala at the vicinity of Rawalpindi, adjacent to the Joint Staff Headquarters (JS HQ). [5]
Military College of Signals. The Military College of Signals (MCS) is located in the suburbs of the Rawalpindi Cantonment, near the close proximity of the Chaklala Cantonment where the JS HQ is currently based in. [2] The college is approximately 3 km (1.9 mi) from the Rawalpindi Railway Station with the nearby shopping center which is about 2 km (1.2 mi) [2]
In 1977, the Pakistan Army's Corps of Education established the direct military unit as a residential institution for imparting undergraduate medical, and dental education, established 1998, to the army's cadets. [4] In Pakistan, the program of Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) is pursued rather than the Doctor of Medicine (MD). [4]
The National Defence University (NDU), formerly introduced as Army War Course (1963–70), [a] the National Defence College (1970–2007), is the military university of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan focused on military education and training for the armed forces, including Pakistan military forces and two hundred foreign participants. [1]
The Corps of Education was commissioned in the services of the Pakistan Army in 1951, but renamed it as Army Education Corps (AEC) in 1954. [1] The Army Education Corps was formed to address the issue of literacy in the nation and to address the challenge of soldiers being qualified as privates to start their careers in the military.: 242 [2]
The army was deployed at large scale. Rawalpindi was the pivotal military base, from where they controlled the command, logistics and services provided to those troops. It was the Headquarters, Northern Command (India). Armed Forces Medical Services were one of the most organized and highly developed support services in the British Indian Army.
[1] [2] It is the largest hospital of the Pakistan Armed Forces, being one of the hospitals in the Pakistan Army with an ISO certification, located in the city of Rawalpindi. Before independence in 1947 it was called the British Indian Military Hospital Rawalpindi. [3] [4] Its commandant/CEO is a serving Major General of Army Medical Corps.
The major training institutions of Pakistan Army are: Pakistan Military Academy: Pakistan Military Academy also known as PMA Kakul, is a Pakistan Army Officers training school located in Kakul, Abbottabad, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. [1] The academy was established on 14 August 1947.