History of Pakistan Army

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PA-5336 General Asif Nawaz Janjua
NI (M), S Bt
16 August 1991 - 8 January 1993

General Asif Nawaz Janjua was born on 3 January 1937. He was selected for Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and got commission on 31 March 1957. He remained Chief of Army Staff from 1991 to 1993.

PA-5977 General Abdul Waheed
NI (M), S Bt
12 January 1993 - 12 January 1996

General Abdul Wahid was born on 20 March 1937 and got commission on 18 October 1959. General Wahid Kakar is remembered for starting the Shaheen Nuclear Missile Project. He was appointed Chief of Army Staff on 12 January 1993 and held the office till 12 January 1996.

PA-6399 General Jehangir Karamat
NI (M), S Bt
12 January 1996 - 7 October 1998

General Jehangir Karamat got commission on 14 October 1961. General Karamat is a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, U.S.A. He was appointed Chief of Army Staff on 12 January 1996 and held the office till 7 October 1998.

PA-6920 General Pervez Musharraf
NI (M), S Bt
7 October 1998 - 29 November 2007

General Pervez Musharraf was born on August 11, 1943 in Delhi, British India. He got commission from Pakistan Military Academy Kakul on 19 April 1964. In 1998 he was promoted to General and took over as the Chief of Army Staff and he had been holding this office till November 2007.

PA-12850 General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani
NI (M), HI
29 November 2007 - 29 November 2013

General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani was commissioned from Pakistan Military Academy, Kakul in Baloch Regiment in 1971. He has served as Director General Inter Services Intelligence. He was appointed Chief of Army Staff on 29 November 2007and held the office till 29 November 2013.

PA-17408 General Raheel Sharif
NI (M), HI(M)
29 November 2013 - 29 November 2016


General Raheel Sharif, NI (M), HI (M) hails from a martial stock. He is younger brother of Major Shabir Sharif, NH, SJ and Capt Mumtaz Sharif, Sbt. He was commissioned in Oct 1976 in 6th Battalion, The Frontier Force Regiment in which his elder brother had embraced Shahadat. He was appointed Chief of Army Staff on 29 November 2013 and held the office till 29 November 2016

 

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Armoured Vehicle At Bahadurkhel Tunnel, Teri Estate, Present Day Banda Daudshah Tehsil.... District Karak, 1930 (c).

 

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M-115 during 1965 war

 

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A camel-ambulance for carrying injured British soldiers during Waziristan campaign, 1939.

 

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Army stationed at Shabqadar fort (Charsadda dist, KP), c1910s.

 

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Camp of British-Indian Army at Sararogha, South Waziristan), 1920 (c).

Photo by R.B.Holmes.

 

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British military encampment at Ali Masjid, Khyber Pass, during Third Anglo-Afghan war, 1919.

Photo by Holmes.

 

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1938, Bannu Kohat road....

 

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Armored vehicles of Sarani column on spying, Core Bridge, Waziristan, 1919.

 

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This could possibly be the 21st Kohat Mountain Battery (Frontier Force).
The road from Landi Kotal to Torkham can be seen in the right of the picture. Some soldiers of the 1st Battalion, The King's Regiment (Liverpool) can also be seen near the gunners.

 

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Photograph of the military camp at Chakdarra in the North West Frontier, taken by Alexander Caddy in the 1880's.

Large military parade at the signaling tower, Chakdarra.

Chakdarra is located in the northern territory of Pakistan on the south bank of the Swat River. Alexander the Great visited this site around 327 BC on his way to invade India, although the site was first fortified some time later, by the Mughal Emperor Akbar's general Zain Khan in 1587. Chakdarra was the scene of fierce fighting in the late nineteenth century.

In 1895, Chakdarra was garrisoned by the Chitral Relief Force, made up of regiments from the British and Indian armies, and kept on as an outpost. Two years later, it was the scene of a siege by 8,000 tribesmen; the garrison was finally relieved on August 2nd, 1897. In this photograph, a military camp can be seen in the foreground with a signaling tower on the hillside beyond.

 

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In The Dreaded Pezu Pass, Lakki Marwat, North-West Frontier Province, 1937 (c).

Indian Army soldiers on detachment to the frontier town of Tank on board a North Western State Railways train traveling through the Pezu Pass. The train was equipped with Vickers and Vickers Berthier machine guns to protect it from attacks by tribesmen.

The North Western State Railway was formed in 1886 from the amalgamation of several railway companies and remained in operation until Indian independence in 1947. The construction of railways was integral to the British strategy to establish and maintain security in the border region between Afghanistan and British India.

In late 1936, there was growing agitation against British rule in Waziristan, led by the Wazir leader Ghazi Mirzali Khan Wazir, 'the Fakir of Ipi'. In response, the British launched a military operation into the Khaisora Valley, hoping that a show of strength alone would suffice to reduce unrest. However, the two main columns of troops met stiff resistance, and their supply lines were disrupted, forcing them to retire.

The operation's failure triggered a wider insurrection, and the ensuing guerrilla war drew in more British and Indian forces. Over 30,000 troops, together with aircraft and armored cars, were deployed to the region. Violence subsided in late 1937, and after brief flare-ups in 1938 and 1939, the North West Frontier was relatively quiet until India became independent in 1947.

From an album of 347 photographs compiled by Captain (later Major) Wynne Howes-Roberts, 1st Battalion 13th Frontier Force Rifles, India and UK, 1936-1937.

 

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Sherwood Foresters Battalion March From Rawalpindi To Waziristan Crossing Bahadurkhel Tunnel, Teri State, 1926 (c).