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Name Appt. Unit and course of commission Awards 01 Saqib Mahmood Malik [1]: Commander, XXXI Corps, Bahawalpur 14 Punjab Regiment - 79 PMA LC: Hilal-e-Imtiaz (Military) 02 ...
The modern history of the Pakistan Army dates back to the formation of Pakistan in 1947, following the partition of the India subcontinent. [1] The army was initially formed as a professional land force by inheriting the assets and personnel of the British Indian Army, with its first commander-in-chief, Frank Messervy.
The British Raj established the Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen Board to look after the welfare of retired and serving personnel in India. After the Partition of India it was renamed to Pakistan Armed Services Board which split into the Bangladesh Armed Services Board after the Independence of Bangladesh in 1971. [ 3 ]
A Pakistan Army soldier in combat gear during training. MILITARY UNIFORMS Insignia Organization 1959-1962 US Armed Forces Information for Pakistan Armed Forces. From 1947 to the early 2000s, Pakistan's military uniforms closely resembled those of their counterparts in the British armed services. [114]
The Infantry Branch of the Pakistan Army was established from the partition of the former British Indian Army's Infantry in 1947– only five regiments were part of the Infantry.: 50 [3] The Infantry Branch is in fact an administrative military organization that is not combat field formation, and it oversees the practice, training, rotation, and deployments including assisting the federal ...
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 ...
Reporting from its headquarter in Nowshera Cantonment, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan, the service corps is one of the important military logistics branch in the Pakistani military, and is commanded by its director-general, Maj-Gen. Usman Haq as of 2023.Unlike other arms like infantry , armour , arty , eme , engineers and other supporting arms ...
The Northern Light Infantry Regiment (NLI) is a light infantry regiment in the Pakistan Army, based and currently headquartered in Gilgit, Pakistan.Along with other forces of the Pakistani military, the NLI has the primary responsibility of conducting ground operations in the interest of defending the strategically-important territory of Gilgit−Baltistan, a Pakistani-controlled region that ...