Pakistan

 

RELIABILITY 2 (GOOD)

 

Last updated April 18, 2011

 

PERSONNEL 625,000

 

GDP $203-billion 2011 and $213-billion 2012 (IMF[1])

Pakistan estimates GDP June 30, 2012 to be $240-billion[2]. We cannot account for the discrepancy.

 

 

DEFENSE BUDGET  

2011 Request $6.2-billion (Rs 524-billion at Rs 85=US$1) Request was for $6.6-billion

 

 $5.2-billion official, taken at Rs 85=US$1estimated

 

$10-billion Orbat.com estimate, all things including paramilitary, Coast Guard,

ordnance factories, US assistance, off-defense-budget major weapons purchases, pensions, US aid, and Civil Armed Forces

 

 

Strategic Doctrine: Countering India’s Cold Start

 

India takes a minimum of 10 days to mobilize; Pakistan takes three days because its formations are closer to the border. After the 2001-2002 mobilization crisis (Operation Prakram), India drew up a new doctrine called Cold Start. This saw India attacking with 8 large battlegroups formed from troops already on the border, with minimum warning, with the objective of breaking through Pakistani defenses before they were fully mobilized. To counter, Pakistan would have to deploy its strike corps, leaving India’s three strike corps free to mobilize and exploit gaps made by the 8 battlegroups. Pakistan would have nothing left to counter with.

 

Unfortunately for India, it did not follow through with the necessary corollary of its new doctrine, which is that the Indian battlegroups would have to be fully mechanized for rapid breakthroughs. It has delayed expansion of its mechanized forces to the point some argue Cold Start cannot be executed till 2025.

 

Further, Pakistan did not wait to start building its counter, which was to add division sized “Corps Reserves” to its four holding corps (V, XXXI, IV, and XXX). Each corps now has three armored/mechanized brigades for counter-penetration against India’s 6 advancing battlegroups. Next, it plans to add a third strike corps, giving it parity with India. The Pakistan strike corps are 2/3rds the size of the Indian (two divisions versus three), but Pakistan is working on mechanizing all divisions in its strike corps, whereas India has an armored division and two infantry divisions, each with an armored brigade.

 

ORGANIZATION  

 

NATIONAL COMMAND AUTHORITY (nuclear weapons)

 

Strategic Plans Division

Development Control Committee

Employment Control Committee

 

Army Strategic Force Command (status equal to corps, and the reason why some sources say Pakistan has 10 corps) Estimated 7000 troops.

 

            Strategic Force North (2 missile groups) Sargodha

            Strategic Force South (3 missile groups) Quetta

 

1st Strategic Missile Group[3] (Shaheen II/Haft IV)

2nd Strategic Missile Group (Haft III/Ghaznavi as of 2006) (Sargodha)

3rd Strategic Missile Group (Khuzdar)

14th Strategic Missile Group

                        ? Strategic Missile Group (number unidentified)

                       

An unidentified SFS missile group is at Hyderabad (included in the five groups above).

 

Hatf I                           70-km

Hatf IA/B                     100-km

Hatf II                          180-km land-based “Abdali”, 500-kg warhead

Hatf IIA                       300-km land-based missile, also called “Abdali”

Hatf III                                    290-km land-based missile; Chinese M-11; “Ghaznavi”

Hatf IV                                    700-km land-based missile; Chinese M-9 “Shaheen I”

Hatf V                         1,500-km IRBM “Ghuari”

Haft VA                       1,800-km IRBM, “Ghauri 2”

Haft VI                                    2,000-km; solid fuel; possibly Chinese M-18; “Shaheen II”

Hatf VII                       500-km cruise missile “Babur”

Haft VIII                      350-km air-launched cruise missile “Raad”

Hatf IX                                    60-km, twin-launcher, alleged with a sub-KT warhead

Haft??                          3,000-km, “Ghauri 3”

 

 

Hatf-I, Hatf-II, and Hatf-III are with the Pakistan Army’s two artillery divisions. Hatf-II has not, as far as we know, been fired after 2007 and may be under replacement. Hatf VII may be with the artillery divisions. Hatf VIII is with the Pakistan Air Force. Though media speculates the missile will be carried by the F-16, there is no a priori reason to assume this. All other missiles are with Strategic Force Command.

 

Numbers are speculative. Our best estimate, liable to revision at any time is:

 

Hatf-I through –III: 2 missile groups (36 launchers total, reloads available)

Hatf-IV through –VI: 3 missile groups (54 launchers)

Hatf-VII: 2 missile groups (including one forming)

Hatf-VIII: 20+ missiles

Hatf-IX: 1 missile group when operational

 

 

FORMATIONS

 

9 Corps HQ  

1 area command[4]

1 Special Operations Task Force HQ in the North West Frontier Province

1 separate territorial HQ in Cholistan area, actually Special Operations School

3 administrative commands

 Northern (Rawalpindi)

 Central (planned)

 Southern (Quetta)

3 logistic areas (phasing out in favor of admin commands)

 

3 armored divisions (by 2013)

1st Armored Division

6th Armored Division (Kharian, I Corps which is Army Reserve North)

A new armored division is planned for the new Army Reserve South

 

5 mechanized divisions (last  by 2014)

            25th Mechanized Division (Karachi, V Corps)

            26th Mechanized Division (Bhawalpur, XXXI Corps)

            ??    Mechanized Division (under raising, XXX Corps)

            ??    Mechanized Division (planned for IV Corps, delayed)

            ??    Mechanized Division (planned for new Army Reserve South)

 

            (Though 17th and 40th Divisions are sometimes referred to as mechanized, we do

 not yet have A1 confirmation)

 

18 infantry divisions

            7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 14th , 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 23rd, 33rd, 35th, 37th,

40th, and 41st Divisions

 

1 Special Forces Division (5th)

3 artillery divisions

2 anti-aircraft divisions (3rd and 4th)

10+ AD brigades (some of which are included in the above divisions) 

6-7 independent brigades (including one on UN service)

9 Corps artillery brigades 

7 engineer brigades (this figure is approximate)

1 Special Forces brigade (1 more planned)

4 battalions

3 independent companies (Signals, anti-terror/hostage rescue)

 

25th and 26th Mechanized Divisions

 

Pakistan identifies Corps Reserve V Corps as 26th Mechanized Division and Corps Reserve XXXI Corps as 25th Mechanized Division. For some time the Corps Reserve had armored division numbers. The reason for the change is not confirmed at this time.

 

Army Reserves

 

Army Reserve North: consists of HQ I Corps, 6th Armored and 17th Mechanized Divisions. It is committed to the Chenab-Ravi Corridor.

Army Reserve Center: currently known as Army Reserve South. When a new ARS is formed, ARC will consist of HQ II Corps with 1st Armored and 40th Mechanized Divisions.  II Corps is currently ARS.

Army Reserve South: currently II Corps, which will become ARC. ARS will then consist of a new corps HQ, with a new armored and a new mechanized division.

 

Deployment

 

The creation of two regional commands plus a third planned is not the long-anticipated remedy for the unusual field command structure of the Pakistan Army, where GHQ controls all ten corps directly. Rather, the regional commands are upgradations of the logistic areas. They will take over more of the corps’ administrative responsibilities than was the case with the logistic commands. 

 

A peculiar feature of Pakistan’s Southern Command and the recently activated Northern Command is that they are actually the corps HQs for X and XII Corps. At the same time, this does not imply that the two corps HQs have been disbanded. We are wholly unclear how this arrangement works.

 

Each corps has an integral field artillery brigade. Most corps also have AAA brigades and engineer brigades assigned.

 

Counterinsurgency deployments

 

Six division HQs are assigned to countering the Taliban.  Because the 20 brigades (with 72 infantry, armored, engineer, and artillery battalions) come from different divisions, the deployment is sometimes given as 7-8 divisions. The orbat below applies to early Spring 2008.

 

HQ XI Corps

 

            7th Infantry Division (Datta Khel) South Waziristan

            9th Infantry Division (Wana) North Waziristan

            14th Infantry Division North Waziristan

 

HQ X Corps

 

            23rd Infantry Division (Mingora) Swat

                        One infantry brigade from the division

                        Three independent brigades from IV and XXX Corps

            37th Infantry Division (Buner)

Reserve

 

            17th Infantry Division

 

Peacetime Deployments

 

GHQ Reserve

37th Infantry Division

 

X Corps [HQ Rawalpindi] AOR West/North Kashmir[5]

12th Infantry Division (5+ brigades)

19th Infantry Division (3 infantry brigades; reserve for the corps)

23rd Infantry Division (4 brigades)

Force Command Northern Areas [HQ Gilgit] AOR Northern Areas

4-5 Infantry Brigades normal garrison 

111th Independent Infantry Brigade[6]

            3 infantry battalions

            1 Ceremonial Guard Battalion

 

 

XXX Corps [HQ Gujranwala] AOR Chenab River to Ravi River

8th Infantry Division (4 brigades)

15th Infantry Division (4 brigades)

Mechanized Division (Corps Reserve XXX Corps) (under raising)

            2 armored brigades (existing)

            1 mechanized brigade (to be raised)

1 independent infantry brigade (double strength)

 

IV Corps [HQ Lahore] AOR Ravi River to Sutluj River

10th Infantry Division

11th Infantry Division

Mechanized Division (delayed, to function as Corps Reserve IV Corps)

3 independent infantry brigades

 

XXXI Corps [HQ Bhawalpur] AOR Sutluj River to Rahim Yar Khan

26th Mechanized Division (Corps Reserve XXXI Corps)

14th Infantry Division

35th Infantry Division

 

V Corps [HQ Karachi] AOR Sindh

25th Mechanized Division (Corps Reserve V Corps)

16th Infantry Division

18th Infantry Division

 

XI Corps [Peshawar] AOR North West Frontier Province

Artillery division (forming)

7th Infantry Division

9th Infantry Division

1 Special Operation Task Force [ad hoc division with existing units on rotation]

 

XII Corps [Quetta] AOR Baluchistan

 33rd Infantry Division

 41st Infantry Division

 

I Corps [Mangla] [Army Reserve North]

6th Armored Division

17th Infantry Division

1 independent armored brigade

1 artillery division (new)

 

II Corps [HQ Multan] [Army Reserve South]

1st Armored Division 

40th Infantry Division

2nd Artillery Division

 

EQUIPMENT

 

MBT 3000 

 

500 Al Khalid I/II (replacing T-59/T-85); based on PRC T-90

300 T-80 Ukraine

600 Al Zarar (upgraded T-59)

T-85 PRC

T-69 PRC

300 T-59 PRC

(M-48 has been finally withdrawn)

 

IFV  

Hamza (procuring; number unknown)

            ~150 Al Fahd

 

APC 2600 (tracked)

            2000 Al Talha (modified M-113); current ~1000; balance planned by 2012

            1600 M-113A2 (earlier M-113A1 upgrading[7])

            ~400 UR-16 wheeled with paramilitary forces

            Al Saad (M-113 with extra road wheel)

            160 BTR-70 (UN peacekeeping)

 

ARTY (T) 1800

            Converting to all 155mm by 2019

            120 M-198

            40 203mm

            1000 PRC 85mm/122mm/130mm; Russian 130mm

300 M-101

 

ARTY (SP) 600

            90+ PRC 155mm on 6 x 6 wheeled chassis SH-1

343 M-109A5 (including 228 A2 upgrading to A5)

            40 M-110 (additional 20 may have been delivered)

            40 Turkey WS1B MLRS (based on PRC WS1A) 80km maximum

            40 PRC A-100 MLRS (10 x 300mm rockets for each launcher)

            40+ KRL-21 rocket launchers (indigenous design, 122mm)

           

 

AD GUNS 1800

            L-60/L-70

            35mm twin

 

SAM (Army and Air Force)

            SPAA RB-70, also in shoulder-fired version; ~900 units, re-lifed

SPAA 4 x Anza Mk I, II, III) plus 14.7mm HMG, also in shoulder fired version, ~1000 units

                                   

10 Spada AD SAM Batteries (Battery = 4 launchers each with 6 missiles; Air Force; last deliveries by 2013; ~750 Aspide including training rounds)

6 Crotale 4000 squadrons (Air Force) with total 24 firing units. (Though Pakistan has said the Spada 2000 will replace Crotale, the latter was upgraded as recently as 2007-2008. It seems unlikely the missile will be phased out as rapidly as stated.)

SAM-2 (China) unknown number of squadrons, possibly 2 with six launchers each. Might be replaced by Chinese HQ-12 (40-km) or HQ-18 (Chinese version of Russian SAM-12), both of which are under evaluation.

 

ATGM ~3000+

 

TOW  (estimated 600 launchers, 6000 rounds)

Ukraine Type (Estimated 500 launchers, 5000 rounds)

Milan

Indigenous design based on PRC Red Arrow 8 

 

 

Special Forces

 

Special Service Group (Army) 3600 personnel

Pakistan is said to now have ten Commando battalions.

 

1st Commando Bn

Ayub Company
Liaqat Company
Kamal Company
Mitha Company

 

2nd Commando Bn

Ghazi Company
Tipu Company
Quaid Company
Bilal Company

 

3rd Commando Bn

Hamza Company
Ibrahim Company
Zakria Company
Easa Company

 

4th Commando Bn

Shaheen Company
Jungju Company
Yaqub Company
Yusuf Company

 

Independent Companies

Zarrar Company

            Musa    Company

            Karrar  Company

 

Special Service Group (Navy)

 

            12th Battalion

 

Special Operations Units, Pakistan Air Force[8]

 

            312 Special Operations Wing

 

                        1st SO Squadron

                        2nd SO Squadron

                        3rd SO Squadron

                        4th SO Squadron

                        5th SO Training Squadrons

                        10th SO Reconnaissance Flying Squadron

 

Frontier Corps

 

            3 companies

            5 companies more under raising

           

 

ARMY AVIATION

 

Army Aviation has undergone an expansion in recent years. It operates in four groups for administrative purposes. Major-General commands Army Aviation. Brigadiers command groups.

 

101st Army Aviation Group (Rawalpindi?)

202nd Army Aviation Group (Quetta)

303rd Army Aviation Group (Rahwali)

404th Army Aviation Group (Multan)

 

SUMMARY OF SQUADRONS[9]

 

3 attack helicopter squadrons

1 VIP/ utility aircraft/helicopter squadron

9 forward air controller squadrons (light fixed wing, some also with helicopters)

6 assault helicopter squadrons

1 VIP squadron

Schools units

 

Several squadrons operate with their flights assigned to different formations.

 

Aviation School  Mushshak, Hughes 300C, SA-316, Bell 47G, Bell 206B 

No. 1 Squadron  Mushshak, SA-316 Alouette

No.2 Squadron   UH-1, Mushshak 

No.3 Squadron   Mushshak, SA-315 Lama

No.4 Squadron   Bell 412EP, Mi-17 

No.5 Squadron   SA-350, Mi-17 

No.6 Squadron   Bell 412 EP (previously UH-1, Mi-17)

No.7 Squadron   Mushshak

No.8 Squadron   AS-350, Mushshak 

No.9 Squadron   Mushshak, SA-315 Lama, SA-316 Alouette

No. 10 Squadron Mushshak, SA-315 Lama

No. 11 Squadron Mushshak, SA-315 Lama

No. 12 Squadron Mushshak, UH-1H

No.13 Squadron Y-12, RC690C, RC840, Ce421, Beech 200, Cessna Citation II and V, AS-350, Puma, Mushshak, Mi-17, UH-1H

No.21 Squadron SA-330, UH-1 

No.24 Squadron SA-330 

No.25 Squadron Bell 412EP, Mi-17

No.27 Squadron Mi-17V

No.31 Squadron 10 AH-1S, 2 Bell 206 

No.32 Squadron 10 AH-1S, 2 Bell 206

No.33 Squadron 10 AH-1F

ISI Detachment Hughes 500, Mi-17

 

(The attack helicopter squadrons are also given as No. 31, 33, and 35)

 

503rd Aviation Base Workshop performs complete overhauls of helicopters.

 

 AIRCRAFT INVENTORY

 

Aérospatiale SA-315B Lama  x 15 (phasing out)

Aérospatiale SA-316B Alouette 3 x 24 (phasing out)

Aérospatiale SA-330J Puma x 25 (planned replace)

Bell 206B Jet Ranger  x 27

Bell 47Gx 12 (training)

Bell AH-1F/S Cobra, upgrade to Z when US permits plus buy 29 new;  32  helicopters[10]

Bell UH-1 and versions

10 x Bell UH-1H Iroquois and -205

24 Bell 412EP (Canada) including 2007 purchase (to be armed)

40 x Bell 407 (Canada) Replacing  –47s and –206s

Boeing AH-64A Apache x 6 (Requested; but US has not cleared)

Cessna 421 Golden Eagle x 1

Eurocopter AS 350 x  10

Eurocopter AS550 (ordering) x  ~20

Harbin Y-12-II Panda x 4

Hughes 300C x 10 (training)

Mil Mi-8/17 'Hip' x ~45  (Older helicopters to be replaced)

PAC MFI-17 Mushshak  x 115

 

Attack helicopter squadrons consist of 10  x AH-1s plus 2 x 206s

 

OTHER BATTALIONS

 

Navy Air Defense Battalion (Deployed between Karachi and Jiwani Naval bases)

            Mistral

            Unidentified SAM

Marine Infantry x 1

Creeks Battalion x 1 (defense of Karachi)

Coast Guard Battalions x 10

Pakistan Rangers (Paramilitary) x ~40 (technically wings of 6 companies each)

Frontier Corps (Paramilitary) x ~60 (technically wings of 6 companies each)

 

PAKISTAN REGIMENTS

 

INFANTRY

 

Punjab

Frontier Force

Baloch (was spelled Baluch, pronounced as Ba-lo-ch; ch as in change)

Azad Kashmir (Free Kashmir, normally deployed only in Kashmir area)

Sind (also spelled Sindh); raised after 1972 War with battalions from other regiments

Northern Light Infantry (formerly paramilitary, regularized in 1999) (50% Punjabi Muslim)

Mujahid Force Regiment (new, regularization of Mujahid paramilitary battalions)

Special Service Group (SF battalions, function in companies)

 

Pakistan has just six infantry regiments; accordingly numbers of battalions grouped under each regimental center is enormous: The first three regiments have as many as 60+ battalions each, so that each center handles more battalions than exist in all but the largest armies today. While the 5 regiments reflect the main ethnic groups in Pakistan, and as such no compelling case exists for more regimental centers, Pakistan – unlike India – has chosen not to create national regiments (in India: Parachute, Guards, Grenadiers, Mechanized Infantry)

 

11 Estimated; another ~6 aircraft are with paramilitary forces.

12 There is no indication the purchase has been cleared from the US end.

13 We are unsure if Pakistan accepted the deal even though it was cleared by the US Congress. Possibly more AS-550 are to be bought. 

 

Armor (incomplete list)

 

2 Cavalry

4 Cavalry

5 Horse (Probyn's)

6 Lancers (DCO)

7 Lancers

8 Cavalry

9 Horse

10 Cavalry (Guide's)

11 Cavalry (PAVO)

12 Cavalry

13 Lancers

14 Lancers

15 Lancers

16 Horse

18 Horse

19 Lancers

20 Lancers

22 Cavalry

23 Cavalry

24 Cavalry

25 Cavalry

26 Cavalry

27 Cavalry

28 Cavalry

29 Cavalry

30 Cavalry

31 Cavalry

32 Cavalry

33 Cavalry 

37 Cavalry

38 Cavalry

39 Cavalry 

 

40 Horse

41 Horse

42 Lancers

 

51 Lancers

52 Cavalry

53 Cavalry 

54 Cavalry

55 Cavalry

56 Cavalry

57 Cavalry

58 Cavalry

 

Pakistan Reserve Battalion System

 

Pakistan has a significant number of troops in its Reserves/National Service pool. The oft given figure of 500,000 is not useful because most of the men will not have trained for years. Nonetheless, Pakistan has, in the past, demonstrated the ability to quickly create new infantry battalions and tank regiments, using reserve manpower. How efficient these battalions are is another matter. We know from historical accounts of the Pakistan army that the new tank regiments did not function well. That was because of inadequately trained tank and maintenance crews, and insufficient unit training. These factors probably do not apply as much to the infantry, because operationally useful conventional infantry company-size units can be speedily organized from individual reservists. Below is an example of capabilities in this area.

 

1965 War (formal war period September 6 - 23)

 

16 FF September 12

17 FF September 12 

18 FF   September 19 

19 FF  September 26 

20 FF  October 1

21 FF  October 1   

22 FF  October 23

23 FF  October 25 

24 FF   November 22 

25 FF   December 19 

26 FF   November 22  

 

16,17 and 18 FF seem to even have seen a little action in the war, despite their raising just days before the cease-fire. One possibility for this strange situation is that the battalions might have been incomplete units under raising, and filled out with troops from the regimental center. Nonetheless, to add 11 battalions within 13 weeks to a base of 15 battalions is impressive.

 

1971 War (formal war period December 3-17)

 

40 FF November 24 

41FF   December 6

42FF December 7

43 FF December 9

 

Seven other battalions were raised in 1971 prior to the above 4. The raisings in 1971 were at a more deliberate pace, with 11 battalions on a 39-battalion base raised within 9 months. (1966-70 only five battalions were raised, a realistic pace.

 

Pakistan Border Forces

 

Most groups are of 4 wings, each of 5 service and 1 reserve companies; groups normally commanded by Deputy Director General who is a brigadier.

Please note that in this orbat we limit ourselves to wings that we have identified. There are likely some 60 wings in total.

 

Frontier Corps North West Frontier Province (55,000)

HQ Peshawar

Commanded by a Major General with the title of Inspector General Frontier Corps (NWFP)

 Frontier Corps Baluchistan (30,000)

HQ Quetta

 

Tribal Police

            Frontier Constabulary (7000)

Northwest Frontier Province Khassadars (lightly armed tribal area police)

N. Waziristan 3305
S. Waziristan 3500

Khyber 2800

Kurram, 900

 

Baluchistan Constabulary (10,000)

As part of a 2005 reorganization the Baluchistan Reserve Police and Baluchistan Levys were merged into a Baluchistan Constabulary. 

While 33,000 total strength has been given, we see no evidence that the Constabulary is that large.

Ministry of the Interior Air Surveillance Wing Quetta

            50th Squadron

3 fixed wing Cessna Caravan

15 Huey II helicopters (14+5 delivered, there have been losses)

 

The aircraft/helicopters have FLIR, GPS and equipment for night missions including Night Vision Goggles, and can also be used for command and control.

 

 

Northern Area Scouts

            Wings at

Gilgit

Skardu

                        Unidentified

                        Unidentified

 

Chitral Scouts (6 wings)

 

Azad Kashmir Rangers

Estimated 3 wings; no other details

 

Pakistan Rangers Punjab (HQ Lahore)

Commanded by a Major General

Each group is commanded by a colonel and consists of several wings commanded by a Lieutenant Colonel.  Most officers and some men are from the Pakistan Army.

Pakistan Rangers Sindh (40,000) (5 zones)

While the Pakistan Rangers Sindh perform traditional border duties such as border security, border policing, and intelligence collection, their primary role today is internal security in the Sindh.  They act as reserve police, thus ensuring the Pakistan Army is not drawn into the law-and-order role, patrol federal highways, and conduct counter-terrorism and asset protection duties.

AOR: 912 kilometers of Indo-Pakistan border, including the Rann of Kutch.

 

National Guard

 

A paramilitary type organization, with several Mujahid and Janbaz Force battalions, which are locally recruited militia. Mujahids are infantry battalions, and include reserve battalions to be embodied at need. Most of the Janbaz units are air defense, but there are some infantry battalions. Total strength is ~160,000, a reduction since the Mujahid battalions in Kashmir are now being regularized. Some Mujahid battalions are permenantly activated and attached to regular army brigades.

 

Frontier works Organization ~40,000 personnel

 

Military heavy construction/maintenance organization for border roads, bridges, tunnels, but also used for other construction like cantonments, airfields, army aviation fields and strips, dams, thermal power plants, canals, fiber-optic backbone, and Pakistan Atomic Energy infrastructure. Aside from the well known 774-km Karakorum Highway linking Pakistan with China via Pakistan Kashmir, the FWO has also built the 650-km Makran Coast Highway. The Karakorum Highway is now being converted into six lanes.

 

Note: Pakistan Defense Budget

 

 

PNR Billions

Comment

Total

2010-11

2011-12

 

 

 

 

 

Salaries and allowances

442

534

2011-12 total budget

Operations and Maintenance

177

 

 

Equipment

111

 

 

Construction

35

 

 

 

 

 

 

Army

209

 

 

Salaries and allowances

128

 

 

O & M

68

 

 

Equipment

28

 

 

Construction

19

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other

34

40

Estimate

Defense Production

0.5

 

 

Frontier Corps Balochistan

10

 

 

Frontier Corps  KPW

10

 

 

Pakistan Rangers

11

 

 

Pakistan Coast Guard

0.7

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pensions

 

113

 

US Assistance

 

121

 

Defense N-program

 

9

Estimate

Major weapons

 

50

Estimate

Civil Armed Forces

20

22

 

Total

 

857

 

 

 

$10-billion

@PNR 85=US$1

 

 

 

 

 



[3] These groups are equivalent to brigades. 18 launchers each.

[4] Force Command Gilgit-Baltistan, known till 2010 as Force Command Northern Areas, is not officially designated as a corps. It is subordinate to HQ X Corps as a territorial and operational formation. It began in the 1970s with two brigades, but is now akin to a corps HQ.  During the 1999 Kargil War, for example, FCNA had one division HQ and nine brigades.

[5] This corps has a very large number of Mujahid infantry battalions. In theory these are second line battalions, mostly embodied during wartime. In Kashmir, however, the Mujahids have a high percentage of permanently activated units. They compare favorably with Army regulars for the defensive role.

[6] The so-called “coup” brigade, sometimes wrongly identified as a mechanized unit.

 

[7] There is some confusion regarding the M-113s because our sources maintain they are being phased out. Seeing as that many have been recently updating, we are unsure if this is the case. Also, in 2008 Pakistan took delivery of 250 ex-German M-113s, though we cannot rule out they were procured for parts. 550 M-113s were acquire as Excess Defense Articles from the US in the mid/late 2000s, that number may not be included in the above total.

[8] From Wikipedia, not independently verified

[9] Estimated

[10] Pakistan is credited with 40 AH-1s, but several are for spares.

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