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[edit] Nishan-I-Haider

It should not be translated as "Sign of Lion", should be translated as "Sign of Haider". Haider was a title given to Ali, who was known for his bravery.

[edit] Pakistan Army to Pakistani Army

Doesn't it make more sense if it were "Pakistani" Army than Pakistan Army. Its not France Army it is French Army.

The material is biased. Pakistan was attacked in 1965 by India; India crossed line of control, and not vice versa. The indian army has always been three times the army of Pakistan. ~~

Very biased indeed...probably written by some Pakistan hating Indian.

well i seems it the person written the above statments probably has seen the indian side of the picture. In the 1965 and 1971 both, India was first to launch offence. In the 1999 Kargil's war, it seems, was initiated by both conntries equally. and among the two out of three wars (1965, 1999), india was also the first to involve UN for ceasefire as well. In 1971 war, Pakistan was not prepared for the war, as it was not declared and did sustain damages.

wow pakistanis r civilsed too jk we all see the war at different view points if we haggle with the data of our old wars there wont be the initiative to prevent the new ones.every war fought damages india and pakistan irreconcilably it smashes our economy annd kills our brothers i wd advocate peaceful settlement rather than wars but there is testosterone......... leo —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.144.28.15 (talk • contribs)

Umm.. why isn't there a history section?

Note : For my Indian friends, Please concentrate over your state and your army, don't get indulge with the affairs of Pakistan. You won't like if we jump to your section and start criticising your Army. Please show some maturity. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Atheistbyfaith (talk • contribs) 13:49, 2 January 2008 (UTC) Dear Pakistani friends, Nobody is here to criticise. you are free to jump over to our section and state your views. The problem arises only when a foreign army jumps over to our territory. No pun intended. Thank you. Burkat —Preceding comment was added at 07:19, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Dear Pakistani friends, Nobody is here to criticise. you are free to jump over to our section and state your views. The problem arises only when a foreign army jumps over to our territory. No pun intended. Thank you. Burkat —Preceding comment was added at 07:21, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Almost done with this Article

I spend a couple of days and really fixing up this article and brought it with parity like the Israeli Army and Indian Army or British Army articles. Indepth details about troop formations, women and minorities, etc. have been added. There is still a few missing info in regards to the Corps Commanders. I have looked all over the net but can't find who are the commanders for the missing Corps. But aside from this, the article is throughly complete. Let me know, if there is anything else that needs to be added

Good work on expanding it. But there is an issue with the images uploaded by you. A sizeable portion of them are untagged (and may be listed for deletion). The tagged ones say copyrighted, but free to use. Can you please provide the exact email or correspondence from the original author/copyright holders agreeing to its use for any purpose? Thanx. Idleguy 06:25, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fixed the pictures

Hi,

Actually I forgot to select the lisence types for the pictures. The pictures are free to use, as long as proper citations is given to the authors. I made the appropriate changes Also, a lot of the images that I uploaded, I got them from wikipedia. For example, the G3, Al-Khalid Tank, Al-Talha, and the Shaheen II pics are all pics previously posted on wikipedia. I created the image files using the same filenames. As for the rest, SSG picture, anza mk2 came from pakistan defence website. They have allowed pictures to be posted from their site on wikipedia, so I saw no harm in posting more pics from their site on wikipedia. I am new to wikipedia, so I forgot to choose the type of license. The remaining 2 pics, the one of the female major-general, the american artillery and the chinese mortar are all from newspapers.

Let me know, if this is ok.

[edit] Asked Permission

Ok,

I have e-mailed www.pakistanidefence.com

for their permission to use the images on this site.


If I get a positive response, I will let you know.

Thanx

[edit] Research and inputs required

Dear all interested to improve this article, as for the present controvercial involvement of Pakistani army in some operations carried out within pakistani borders, can someone help in listing out all those with references? I think it will be good to add a section listing armed operations done be pakistan army, with dates and minor details, this list will also complement the raised concern about adding History of Pakistan Army to this article.

The list can then be sub divided into two parts, one being the list of successful operations and the other being the list of failures.

I am sure the list with successful operations will have all those carried out within pakistani borders, or perhaps those carriedout under the flag of UN. The other list though will be longer, Any Contributions please? Mkashifafzal 10:27, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wars?

No one has mentioned anything about the war's or anything which happens to have fighting in it..can someone mention someithing about wars??Tere naam 00:52, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dead link

During several automated bot runs the following external link was found to be unavailable. Please check if the link is in fact down and fix or remove it in that case!

    • In Pakistan Army on Thu Jul 27 00:50:11 2006, HTTP Error: HTTP/1.0 bad gateway


maru (talk) contribs 04:50, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Where is the Military history of the army?

Pak navy and pak air force have separate sections in the respective articles discussing about their histories. Yet pak army doens't have a history section. Instead the link "main article" under History leads to Military history of Pakistan which is a related but a different article about the entire military history. So did the specific history of pakistan army fall somewhere into the crevice? Idleguy 07:33, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Actually, the military history of pakistan was originally designed to be history of the pakistan army. but i kept modifying it and decided to make into a military history of pakistan. I am gonna have to write up a new section about the history of the pakistan army Mercenary2k 19:21, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nice work u guys

nice work, i wrote to dawn when i checked this document the last time urging it to encourage ppl with the neccesary skills to correct this document and the many others that are biased, 203.128.255.4 00:26, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] No need for Major Generals' name list

I just deleted the list of major general's (which was old and incomplete), because I feel it puts too much useless info for Pakistan Army. Only lieutenant generals (which number to THIRTY!) are worthy enough to put up in the article. BTW, I updated the list as of April 2007. Razzsic 17:36, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Does it make any difference when this is already available in market on net.--203.81.202.116 07:53, 1 July 2007 (UTC)andy

[edit] No need for "other commanders" name list either

Why do we have an entire section for the "other commanders" in the article? Completely unnecessary in my opinion; it should be removed to streamline the article. People that are interested in the other commanders will visit their article page themselves, no need to include it in the main PAK Army page.

Zaindy87 22:46, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

ofcourse there is no need to display the names of other commanders.this is due to security reasons mainly.one has got nothing to do with it.

[edit] copyright problem

This article is in large part identical to the article found at http://www.defence.pk/Pakistan_Army/. This could be a copyright violation (unless it turns out that the copyrighted source actually copied material from Wikipedia). If indeed the majority of this article has been copied from http://www.defence.pk/Pakistan_Army/ than the copied material must be removed, as keeping it would be a violation of the Wikipedia copyright policy. I informed the Wikipedia:Copyright problems board about this and invite- whoever uploaded the material in question- to participate in the discussion there. --noclador 21:26, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

I find this similarity puzzling. The intro to the article has been roughly the same, and VERY similar to the referenced page, since at least April 2006 [1]. And the history shows that the article has morphed in a natural fashion from the reasonably-different version of February 2006 [2], with no clear dividing line where chunks of content were copied into the article. The defence.pk article was written by "WebMaster", and last updated May 25; the Internet Archive knows nothing about it.
Unless the webmaster complains about the article, I'll assume that no copying of his content into Wikipedia has occured. This article has a LONG history. --Alvestrand 20:40, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Format of article

I have moved some of the sections around in this article based on the US Army article. The Army motto/combat doctrine/command structure should be at the top of the article because this articles main focus is the Army of today. There is a separate article for the military history of Pakistan.

Like the US Army article, the command structure and organization of the army should be at the top.Zaindy87 11:58, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Deployment to Arab countries

I notice there's a reference in the header to the Pakistani army deploying to Arab countries, but the only reference I can find is to the 1979 Mecca crisis. Perhaps somebody could come up with some more information on this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hughteg (talk • contribs) 00:50, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Number of Helicopters in Pakistan army aviation

I believe the number of Ah-1's you have listed is incorrect. There are only 39 (approx) in service and not 72. There is no reference in the DSCA website for the this number of acquisitions. Also in the April 2007 issue of AFM the following was printed.


Ex-US Army Cobras delivered to Pakistan Army: A formal ceremony was held at Qasim AA Base, near Islamabad on Feb 2 to mark the handover of 8 re-furbished former US Army Bell AH-1F Cobra attack helicopters to the Pakistan Army. These helicopters are the 1st batch of a TOTAL of 20 refurbished AH-1Fs that are being supplied under a $50 mill FMS programme. All previously were held in storage at Fort Drum, New York awaiting re-sale. they comprise: 79-23228,79-23239,80-23516,80-23519,80-23521,81-23526,81-22527,81-23537,82-24065,82-24066,82-24067,82-24069,82-24071,82-24072,82-24073,82-24074,83-24190,83-24196,83-24198 and 83-24199. Apart of the same FMS contract, a further 20 AH-1Fs from Fort Drum were also acquired by Pakistan PURELY FOR SPARES USE. During late 2004, all 20 of the helicopters that were to be made air-worthy were moved by road from Fort Drum to Jacksonville, Florida. they were then transported by ship to San Juan, Puerto Rico, before going on to the local DynCorp international facility at Aguadilla for re-furbishment. Eight of the AH-1Fs that are to be used purely as spares ships (79-23221,79-23229,79-23231,79-232248,80-23514,81-23528,81-23530 and 83-24195) were also delivered to DynCrop in Puerto-Rico to be stripped by the company for component recovery. the remaining 12 spares donors (identities un-confirmed) are thought to have been shipped direct to Pakistan. DynCorp is also incorporating several upgrades into the 20 helicopters that are being made air-worthy. this modernisation includes fitting C-NITE (Cobra Night Imaging Thermal Equipment) target designation system for use in bad weather or at night, radar warning receivers and replacement UHF/VHF radios. Pakistan has previously taken delivery of 20 AH-1S Cobras which entered service from late 1984. Nineteen are reported to be still operational - one having presumably been lost through attrition. the type is operated by 31 and 32 squadrons, both based at Multan.

So the correct number ois 20 + the original number of ah-1's Keysersoze25 10:55, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Number of Helicopters in Pakistan army aviation

I believe the number of Ah-1's you have listed is incorrect. There are only 39 (approx) in service and not 72. There is no reference in the DSCA website for the this number of acquisitions. Also in the April 2007 issue of AFM the following was printed.


Ex-US Army Cobras delivered to Pakistan Army: A formal ceremony was held at Qasim AA Base, near Islamabad on Feb 2 to mark the handover of 8 re-furbished former US Army Bell AH-1F Cobra attack helicopters to the Pakistan Army. These helicopters are the 1st batch of a TOTAL of 20 refurbished AH-1Fs that are being supplied under a $50 mill FMS programme. All previously were held in storage at Fort Drum, New York awaiting re-sale. they comprise: 79-23228,79-23239,80-23516,80-23519,80-23521,81-23526,81-22527,81-23537,82-24065,82-24066,82-24067,82-24069,82-24071,82-24072,82-24073,82-24074,83-24190,83-24196,83-24198 and 83-24199. Apart of the same FMS contract, a further 20 AH-1Fs from Fort Drum were also acquired by Pakistan PURELY FOR SPARES USE. During late 2004, all 20 of the helicopters that were to be made air-worthy were moved by road from Fort Drum to Jacksonville, Florida. they were then transported by ship to San Juan, Puerto Rico, before going on to the local DynCorp international facility at Aguadilla for re-furbishment. Eight of the AH-1Fs that are to be used purely as spares ships (79-23221,79-23229,79-23231,79-232248,80-23514,81-23528,81-23530 and 83-24195) were also delivered to DynCrop in Puerto-Rico to be stripped by the company for component recovery. the remaining 12 spares donors (identities un-confirmed) are thought to have been shipped direct to Pakistan. DynCorp is also incorporating several upgrades into the 20 helicopters that are being made air-worthy. this modernisation includes fitting C-NITE (Cobra Night Imaging Thermal Equipment) target designation system for use in bad weather or at night, radar warning receivers and replacement UHF/VHF radios. Pakistan has previously taken delivery of 20 AH-1S Cobras which entered service from late 1984. Nineteen are reported to be still operational - one having presumably been lost through attrition. the type is operated by 31 and 32 squadrons, both based at Multan.

So the correct number is 20 + the original number of ah-1's (39/40 total) Keysersoze25 10:56, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Milan ATGM

There have never been Milan ATGM's Pakistani service. I believe this to be a carryover from a error on another website.Keysersoze25 18:40, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mistral and other missile errors

The Mistral missile was acquired by the navy and not the army. The same is true of the Crotale which is in use by the PAF and not the army.

The army has acquired the RBS23 BAMSE system which is not mentioned, and the air force, the SPADA 2000 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Keysersoze25 (talk • contribs) 22:46, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Khemkarancaptured.jpg

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[edit] Horribly Written!

Frankly, this article is so horribly written with comments like "That war was a comic war" and "that war was funny" and stuff like that.. Hello, this is supposed to be an encyclopedia!!!!! 59.92.0.181 (talk) 18:14, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] History

I'm sorry people but the history section needs either re-writing or deleting with a link to the main history article. It is not fit for an encyclopaedic entry. If no-one objects, I will delete it. AJKGORDON«» 12:06, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Ah, I see Mercenary2k has done both. Excellent work. AJKGORDON«» 10:17, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fauji Foundation

Please forgive my ignorance and naivete. What does "Fauji Foundation" have to do with the "Political Power of the Pakistani Army"? I have certain conjectures but the article does not "connect the dots" to make the linkage clear. Can someone clarify the relationship if there is indeed one? --Richard (talk) 07:43, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Nit-pick

I know this isn't very important. Anyhow: Should this article not be called 'Army of Pakistan' like all of the other nation's military's articles? Contralya (talk) 18:49, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

No, I don't think there is a need for that but it should be in its correct adjective form (i.e Pakistani Army).--Ãlways Ãhëad (talk) 18:57, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ghost divisions

Over the last few weeks two new divisions seem to have appeared on the ORBAT of this page, vi 25th and 26th mechanised divison in V and XXXI Corps. I have never heard of them, they certainly were not there last year, and until someone shows me evidence for their raising I am deleting those.

58.65.163.248 (talk) 14:47, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Talk to Razzsic before you do. I think he primarily takes care of this article. --→ Ãlways Ãhëad (talk) 00:42, 28 May 2008 (UTC)