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Defence forces owning huge tracts of lands in semi-rural and urban areas isn’t an uncommon thing. They need space for training, storage, residence, training among a hundred other things. So they end up with large amounts of land ownership almost everywhere in the world. But countries owned by their defence forces like Pakistan are a […]
Whole of Pakistan is in turmoil after arrest of former PM Imran Khan. Pakistani Army has shown restraint against the protestors even as houses of senior officers and cantonments are being burnt and looted. But they fired on protesters only at Rahwali cantt. It is interesting because this is one of bigger sites for storage […]
Following is a list of known Pakistani Army’s infantry and support regiments and their locations between 2020-22. Many known regiments are not listed here as I have no information about them. There are many missing fields in the table too and I may update it in future. Gallery below the table contains badges of some […]
Pakistan’s Air Defence (AD) system is a tri-service and mutually integrated setup with the main focus on defence against India. PAF laid the foundation of an integrated AD network in 1976 or 1977 under “Project Crystal”. Multiple fixed and mobile radar systems were acquired to set the foundation. Presently, Air Defence Command (ADC) is responsible […]
Introduction This paper is a part of a series of texts covering Order of Battle (ORBAT) and a few other details of Pakistani armed forces. The index of all other posts is at links provided at bottom. Some information is already published there, but it will be replaced with more detailed and updated data in […]
Pakistani armoured corps is a fairly strong military arm with a large number of tanks of various types in service. Pakistan Army (PA) doctrine depends upon their tanks to repel or hold any Indian invasion in most non-mountainous sectors south of Sunderbani in Jammu. Pakistani tanks have played important roles in all wars against India […]
This section covers some of the components (can’t remember the right word for it at the moment) of Pakistani army like regiments, armour and anti-tank units. There is surprisingly little information about even basic information like infantry regiments of Pakistani army and a lot of data is missing. Anti Tank Pakistani Army utilises dedicated vehicle […]
“Most countries have an army, but Pakistan’s army has a country” is a popular saying which to be fair, is also somewhat true for many other unstable countries in Africa and the Middle-east. What makes Pakistan unique is how it’s armed forces have successfully controlled all aspects of the statecraft and internal politics for so […]