Tag: Pakistan
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Land ownership statistics of Pakistani armed forces are interesting.
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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…
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Pakistani mobs at nuclear storage site.
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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…
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Pakistani Armed Forces ORBAT, Part 8: Army Regiments & Badges
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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…
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Pakistani Armed Forces ORBAT, Part 7: Air Force
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Pakistan Air Force (PAF) has grappled with various issues over the last 2-3 decades mostly due to lack of funding and sanctions. Yet it has kept a reasonably good inventory…
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Pakistani Armed Forces ORBAT, Part 6: Artillery
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Artillery is one of the most valued arms of the Pakistan Army and a lot of scarce resources have been invested in it. Over the years, PA has relied on…
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Pakistani Armed Forces ORBAT, Part 5: Air Defence
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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…
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Pakistani Armed Forces ORBAT, Part 4: Nuclear Forces
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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…
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Pakistani Armed Forces ORBAT, Part 3: Pakistani Army Armoured Corps
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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…