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Pakistan Army


00:02:58 1 Mission
00:03:39 2 History
00:03:48 2.1 Early origins: 1947–1958
00:07:18 2.2 1958–1969
00:10:52 2.3 1969–1971
00:12:39 2.4 1971–1977
00:13:46 2.5 1977–1999
00:16:55 2.6 1999–2008
00:22:10 3 UN peacekeeping missions
00:22:48 4 Organization
00:22:57 4.1 Command structure
00:24:33 4.2 Commissioned officers rank
00:25:07 4.3 Subdivision by profession
00:25:23 4.4 Operational commands
00:25:56 4.5 Corps
00:27:05 4.6 Other field formations
00:29:11 4.7 Regiments
00:30:08 4.8 Special forces
00:30:33 5 Combat doctrine
00:34:03 6 Political and corporate activities
00:36:45 7 Involvement in Pakistani society
00:38:02 8 Personnel
00:38:23 8.1 Enlisted ranks
00:39:20 8.2 Officer ranks
00:40:06 8.3 Academic institutions
00:43:52 8.4 Science and technology
00:44:58 8.5 Uniforms
00:46:34 8.6 Ethnic composition
00:47:38 8.7 Women and non-Muslims
00:49:45 8.8 Recipients of Nishan-e-Haider
00:50:30 8.9 Recipients of foreign awards
00:51:31 9 Equipment
00:51:58 10 Sports
00:52:22 11 See also



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The Pakistan Army (Urdu: پاک فوج‬‎ Pak Fauj; Reporting name: PA) is the land warfare uniform service branch of the Pakistan Armed Forces. It came into the existence from the British Indian Army that ceased to exist following the partition of India that resulted in the independence of Pakistan on 14 August 1947. According to the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), it had approximately 560,000 active personnel as of 2017. In Pakistan, there is 16–23 years of age for voluntary military service; soldiers cannot be deployed for combat until age 18 according to its nation's constitution.The primary objective and its constitutional mission is to ensure the national security and national unity of Pakistan by defending it against external aggression or threat of war, and internal threat by maintaining peace and security within its land borders by requisitioning it by the government to cope with internal threats. During the events of national calamities and emergency, it conducts humanitarian rescue operations at home as well as participating in the peacekeeping missions mandated by the United Nations, most notably playing a major role in rescuing the trapped U.S. soldiers in Somalia in 1993 and Bosnian War in 1992–95.The Pakistan Army, which is a major component of the national power alongside with the Pakistan Air Force and Navy, has been involved with four wars on its borders with neighbouring India and several armed skirmishes on its porous border with Afghanistan. Since 1960s, the elements of the army has been repeatedly deployed to act as military advisory in the Arab states during the events of Arab–Israeli wars, aided the UN-based coalition in the first Gulf War. Other notable military operations on War on Terror in the 21st century included: Zarb-e-Azb, Black Thunderstorm, and Rah-e-Nijat.In violation of its constitutional mandate, it has overthrown elected governments overreaching its constitutional mandate protected by the Constitution to "act in aid of civilian federal government when called upon to do so", the army has been involved in enforcing martial law against the elected governments in claiming to restore law and order in the country by dismissing law making bodies of the parliament four times in past years, and has wider commercial, foreign, and political interests in the country acting as state within a state.The Pakistan Army has a regimental system but is operationally and geographically divided into command zones, with basic field of being the corps. The Constitution declares the President of Pakistan to be the Commander-in-Chief. The Pakistan Army is commanded by the Chief of Army Staff, by statute a four-star rank general, who is senior member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee is appointed by the Prime Minister and confirmed by the President of Pakistan. The Pakistan Army is currently under the command of General ...