The Pakistan Army

The Chief of the Army Staff supervises his service through the Army General Headquarters in Rawalpindi. The four principal staff officers under the Chief in Army General Headquarters are the Chief of the General Staff, the Adjutant General, the Quartermaster General, and the Master General of Ordinance. Major generals usually fill these positions. The operations and intelligence functions were the responsibility of the Chief of the General staff.

Present Chief of army staff is General Pervaiz Musharraf.

Vice Chief of The Army Staff is General Muhammad Yousuf Khan.

The Army components are categorized as arms or services. The arms are infantry, artillery, armor, engineers, and communications. The services include various components, such as the ordnance corps; maintenance and repair corps; electrical and mechanical engineer corps; education corps; military police corps; and the remount, veterinary, and farm corps.

A corps usually consisted of two or more divisions and is commanded by a lieutenant general whose headquarters is a scaled-down version of the Army General Headquarters. An infantry division, the major ground force combat formation, usually consisted of infantry, artillery, engineers, and communications units in addition to the supply and service support required for sustained independent action. Three infantry brigades usually comprised the primary organic combat units of an infantry division; armored units would be attached depending on the mission of the division and the terrain in which it operated.

Auxiliary or paramilitary forces include the Pakistan Rangers, the Frontier Corps, and the Frontier Constabulary.

Structure:

• 9 Corps HQs

• 2 Armoured Divisions

• 19 Infantry Divisions

• 1 Artillery Division

• 6 Independent Armoured Brigades

• 6 Independent Mechanized Infantry Brigades

• 8 Air Defence Brigades

• 9 Artillery Brigades

• 7 Engineer Brigades

• 3 Armoured Recce Regiments

• 1 Special Services Group (3 Battalions, 1 independent company)

Grouping:

The 20 Infantry & 2 Armoured Divisions are grouped under 9 different Corps headquarters commanded by 3-star Lieutenant Generals. These are:

• I Corps (Mangla)

• II Corps (Multan)

• IV Corps (Lahore)

• V Corps (Karachi)

• X Corps (Rawalpindi)

• XI Corps (Peshawar)

• XII Corps (Quetta)

• XXX Corps (Gujranwala)

• XXXI Corps (Bahawalpur)

EQUIPMENT:

• Main Battle Tanks:200 T-85II APs, 51 T-55s, 250 T-69s, 1200 T-59s 100 T-60/63s, 450 M-47/48s (being withdrawn) Work continues on MBT-2000 Al-Khalid.

• Anti-Tank: AH-1 Cobras, 5500 TOWs & TOW- Iis. Armoured Personnel Carriers 800 M113s, 120 BTR 70s. M113s Manufactured at Heavy Industries Taxila.

• Artillery: AMERICAN: 105/150/255 mm Self Propelled and Towed Howitzers. Also 85mm/122mm CHINESE guns. Old 25 pounders. Some Bofors. Additional M-198 Howitzers being delivered from the US under the Brown Amendment

• Army Aviation:20 AH-1 COBRA Gunships, Mi-8s, French Alloute IIIs, PUMAs, Mi-17s, UH-1s, Bell-47, Cessna O-1Es

• Army Air Defence: AA guns ZU-23/33 30, 36, 37mm. SAMs CROTALEs, 400 RBS-20, SAM-7, STINGERS, Anza MK II

• Surface-to-Surface Missiles Work Stopped on indigenous HATF-I ,II Reportedly CHINESE M-11s acquired clandestinely from China. Local Production of M113A2.

Pakistan is perfect in its own missile technology with the accuracy rate of 100%

Pakistan Has developed A Series of Missiles in Reply To India's Missiles

(All this info is from WORLD DEFENCE ALMANAC 1999)