Pakistan Army
Courage is their Weapon

Life's no life when honour's left
Man's a man when honour's kept
Nation's honour and nation's fame
On life they have a prior claim
With thoughts of these I do remain
Unvexed with cares of loss or gain

-Khushhal Khan Khattak

SOME OF THE MANY DEFENDERS OF PAKISTAN IN THE AIR FORCE

Cobra gunship crew member offers evening prayer

We shouldn't forget our Lord, The most Merciful and The Beneficial.
Use as your desktop wallpaper.

Above: Sundown devotion. Cobra gunship crew member offers evening prayers at edge of desert firing range.

In the Army and also in the Air Force there is a sense of faith reinforced by prominent notices: 'Life and death are the same thing: and when the experiment of life is completed, then the eternal life , which we call death begins.' 'Fighting in the name of Allah, fighting in the name of truth, is the supreme sort of worship, and anybody who does service in the army with the intention of doing this job in worship, his life is a worship.' Ranged against these are warnings to exercise caution and sense:

Sweat saves blood
Blood saves life
Brain saves both

GHAURI MISSILE
SURFACE TO SURFACE INTERMEDIATE RANGE MISSILE

Launch of Ghauri Missile - April 1998


Para Military Forces
Our officers train and command the following para military forces: National Guards (185000) including Janbaz Force, Mujahid Force, National Cadet Corps and Women Guards; Frontier Corps (65,000), Pakistan Rangers (30,000) and Coast Guards (2,100).


National Defence College
In 1971, the National Defence College commenced its first full-fledged course to impart higher military education to our senior officers, highlighting various elements of national power, national and operational strategy, the methodology of crisis and conflict management, and higher direction of war in which we had been found wanting in 1971.

In 1976, the Higher Defence Organization was streamlined and revitalised. The western influenced strategic doctrine was critically analysed and re-evaluated in the light of our geostrategic realities and operational environment. Core issues of Quranic concepts of warfare, regulated by laws like Jehad, checks and balances on use of force, prohibition of total unlimited war, humane measures to protect women, children and prisoners, encouraging negotiations for honourable peace and that enemies need not be permanent, and other fundamentals were highlighted in the re-evaluation.

NUCLEAR TEST
Nuclear Test at Chagai, Baluchistan - May 1998

SIACHEN

JAMMU & KASHMIR

LINKS

JAMMU & KASHMIR WAR (1947-48)

SIACHEN GLACIER REGION