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Pakistan Army and Afghan Taliban clashed in multiple areas of Khost District and Kurram District [133] resulting in the deaths of at least eight Taliban including two commanders of the Afghan Taliban, Khalil and Jan Muhammad and further wounding of sixteen Afghan Taliban. [134] Five Pakistani personnel were also killed in the skirmishes. [133]
Syed Asim Munir Ahmed Shah [a] (born 1968) [2] is a Pakistani military officer who is currently serving as the 11th chief of the army staff of Pakistan Army since 29 November 2022. [3] Before becoming the army chief, he was posted at the GHQ as Quartermaster general .
The army leadership is based in the GHQ whose functions are supervised by the Chief of Army Staff, assisted by the civilians from the Army Secretariat of the Ministry of Defence (MoD). [1] The Chief of Army Staff exercises the responsibility of complete operational, training and logistics commands. : 131 [ 10 ] [ self-published source?
Command and control at all levels of the new army was extremely difficult, as Pakistan had received six armoured, eight artillery and eight infantry regiments compared to the twelve armoured, forty artillery and twenty-one infantry regiments that went to India.: 155–156 [24] In total, the size of the new army was about ~150,000 men strong ...
From left, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Navy Adm. Mike Mullen and Rear Adm. Scott Van Buskirk, commander of Carrier Strike Group 9, speak with Chief of Army Staff Gen. Ashfaq Kayani and Maj. Gen. Ahmad Shuja Pasha, director general of military operations, on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) while under way in the northern part of the Arabian Sea on ...
On 16 March 2024, militants detonated a truck bomb and fired at Pakistani soldiers at a border checkpost. Five Pakistani soldiers were killed in the truck bombing, and two more were killed in the firing. Six attackers were also killed, according to Pakistan Army, who stated that the attackers used Afghanistan as a base for the attack. A ...
The Director-General (DG) is head of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Pakistan's premier intelligence service, operationally responsible for providing critical national security and intelligence assessment to the government of Pakistan. Walter Cawthorn had conceived the idea of ISI.
Army Welfare Trust (AWT), also known as Askari Group, is a Pakistani conglomerate based in Rawalpindi. The Army Welfare Trust, along with Fauji Foundation, are run by ex-military personnel of the Pakistan Army. The companies provide employment opportunities to ex-military personnel and generate funds for the welfare and rehabilitation of ...