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The Pakistan Army (Urdu: پاکستان فوج, romanized: Pākistān Fãuj, pronounced [ˈpaːkɪstaːn faːɔːdʒ]), commonly known as the Pak Army (Urdu: پاک فوج, romanized: Pāk Fãuj), is the land service branch and the largest component of the Pakistan Armed Forces. The president of Pakistan is the supreme commander of the army.
In 2015 the Pakistan Army ordered 12 Bell AH-Z Viper attack helicopters, with an option of 3 more to replace its aging AH-1F Cobras. Following cancellation of $300 million military aid to Pakistan by the US government, the helicopters were put into storage at Davis-Monthan AFB , Arizona .
The leadership appointment of the Strategic Plans Division comes directly from the Army HQ in Rawalpindi. [8] Designated as a Director-General, the general officer is a three-star rank who reports directly to chief of army staff. [8] There are four security directorates for each strategic organization and each directorate is led by Brigadier. [9]
The Pakistan Army Corps of Signals is a military administrative and a combined arms branch of the Pakistan Army. [1] [2] Headquartered in the Army GHQ, the Corps of Signals oversees the communications, information system, and computer security for the command and control of the joint and combined arms uniformed forces of the Pakistani military.: 394 [3]
[citation needed] Commissioned in 1956 with help from US Army Special Forces, the Pakistan Army's Special Services Group (SSG) is an elite special operations division; its training and nature of operations are roughly equivalent to British Special Air Service (SAS) and US Army Special Forces and Delta Force.
From 1947 till 1957, the British Army provided the crucial training support and education on military logistics its officers who were commissioned in the Army Service Corps.: 518 [9] [10] Since 1966, the Army Service Corps is now stationed in Nowshera along with its Army Service College that provides the necessary training and education and ...
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 ...
Pakistan Military Academy (PMA), is a military academy located near Kakul village in Abbottabad District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.Established in October 1947, [2] [1] it is the only service academy in Pakistan that trains cadets to serve as army officers.