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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]
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.
Armed Forces Post Graduate Medical Institute (AFPGMI) is the oldest post-graduate medical institute of the country. It was established on 18 August 1953 as the Army Medical Corps School at Lahore by integration of Hygiene and Malaria Wings of Pakistan Army Medical Corps.
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]
According to history pages, this institute started operating in 1970. The Pakistan Army Cardiac Service started in 1953 in Cardiothoracic Centre Rawalpindi. [2] The first angiography was done in 1969 and the first open heart surgery was done in 1970. In 1978, the Cardiothoracic Centre Rawalpindi was upgraded as Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology.
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.
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]