History of Pakistan Army

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Lt. (Later Lt Gen) Bakhtiar Rana, 4th from the left, & then, Lt Anant S Pathania, 2nd from the right in a 'Pathan Pugree' - Vasu Pathania At The Frontier. (Probably the location is Waziristan)
Year: 1935
Courtesy: Talat Rana.

 

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Agit Singh Sodhi (lying on floor), Bakhtiar Rana (later Lt.General), Anant Pathani and Muhammad Mussa (later C-in-C) at Razmak at the end of the Waziristan Campaign.
Year: 1939.
Courtesy: Ehsan Ullah

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A vintage photo of Capt Musa Khan (rear left), 2nd Lts Bakhtiar Rana (right front) and Anant Singh Pathania (Seated below). Musa Khan became CNC of Pakistan Army, Bakhtiar Rana retired as Lt Gen from Pakistan Army and Anant Pathania retired as Maj Gen Indian Army. They all served together in 59th Rifles.
Date: c1936

 

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Indian Pattern Crossley Armoured Cars At Data Khel Fort, Waziristan, North-West Frontier, 1920's (c).

This Image Is Restored And Watermarked By East India Company And Raj Research Group.

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Datta Khel landscape as seen from military base, Tochi Valley, Waziristan, 1898 (c).

 

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Qauid e Azam M A Jinnah's Peshawar visit in Apr 1948.

Meeting officers of Royal 6/13th FFR (59 Scinde/ 1 FF) Murtaza Jan is 1st from Left (Third officer from left is Mian Taskeen ud Din sb. CO Bakhtiar Rana and Lt Gen Nazir can be seen with Qauid. In the foreground is JInnah's ADC)

 

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The 1 SP (Field) Regiment - September 1965.

 

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Railways Were Not Available For All Locations.

Regiments Had To Simply March. Image of 5/13th Frontier Force Rifles, Preceded By Their Band, Marching From Kohat To Bannu in December 1930 Near Surdag, Teri Tehsil Of Kohat (Now District Karak).KPK.

 

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Photograph showing Afridis of the Punjab Frontier Force of the Indian Army in Hampton Court Camp on the occasion of the Coronation of King Edward VII, August 1902,
by Sir Benjamin Stone.
© Victoria and Albert Museum

 

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Indian Mountain Battery in action in the Khyber Agency, 1930's (c).





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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Lieutenant Colonel Sir Nawab Aslam Khan Sadozai, The First Muslim Commandant Of The Khyber Rifles. With First Political Agent, Of The First Tribal Agency Khyber, Major (Later) Colonel Sir Robert Warburton, 1881 (c).




The First Commandant Of The Khyber Rifles Was Sir Robert Warburton, Son Of An Anglo-Irish Soldier Robert Warburton Of The Bengal Artillery And His Wife Shah Jehan Begum, An Afghan Princess. Sir Robert Remained The Commandant Until His Retirement In 1899. His Deputy, Colonel Sir Aslam Khan Sadozai, The First Muslim Commandant, Succeeded Him.

 

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Officers And VCOs Of 6/13 Frontier Force Rifles (Earlier 59th Scinde Rifles And Now 1 FF In The Pakistan Army) Photographed At Razmak In Waziristan In 1938.

 

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23rd January,1951. Rawalpindi.

On this day, 71 years ago, General Muhammad Ayub Khan assumed charge as Commander in Chief of Pakistan Army. He succeeded Gen Douglas Gracy, and became the first non British, and at age 43, the youngest Pak Army chief, till date.

In later years, he became the second president of Pakistan, after seizing power as President in a coup in 1958, a role he continued till 1969. Ayub Khan's impact and influence on history and politics of Pakistan is perhaps more than any other leader in its 75 years history.

Notice the size and simplicity of his office, with basic furniture and flags of the military units he commanded.

 

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Mohmand Field Force In Camp At Nahakki, During The Indian Frontier Rising, 1897 (c).
© Melton Prior / Britishbattles.

 

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Dropping Message To Brigade Headquarters' From Photographs Relating To Col Alexander Bennett's Service With The Mohmand Field Force, North-West Frontier Province, 1936-36 (c).

 

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Farewell to outgoing British MGO, Officers L-R, Brig Fazle Muqeem (PA155), outgoing British MGO, Maj Gen Syed Shahid Hamid (first Pakistani MGO of the Pakistan Army) and Brig (later Maj Gen) Sherjan, Rawalpindi, 1952...