Pakistan Army Air Defence Corps

Pakistan army staff corps for anti-aircraft warfare.

Not to be confused with Army Air Defence Command (Pakistan).

Pakistan Army Air Defence Corps

Badge of the Pakistan Army

Founded| 1948; 77 years ago (1948)
Country|  Pakistan
Branch|  Pakistan Army
Type| Combined and Combat support service
Role| Administrative and staffing oversight.
HQ/Garrison| Army GHQ in Rawalpindi, Punjab in Pakistan.
Nickname(s)| ADC
Colors identification| Black, Yellow

Anniversaries| 1948
Engagements| Military history of Pakistan
Commanders
Director-General| Maj-Gen. Sarfraz Ahmad
Notable
commanders| Gen. Ehsan ul Haq
Insignia
War Flag|

Military unit

Administrative Corps of the Pakistan Army

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An Army Air Defence Regiment lowers the Regimental Flag during march past

The Pakistan Army Corps of Air Defence is a military administrative and combat service support branch of the Pakistan Army.[1] Reporting direct from the Army GHQ, it is commanded by Major-General Sarfraz Ahmed who served its director-general as of 2023.[2]

## Overview

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The Pakistan Army troops operating a M45 Quadmount during the 1965 conflict with India.

The Pakistan Army Air Defence Corps was commissioned into the Pakistan Army as an administrative staff branch from the partition of the former British Indian Army's Corps of Army Air Defence, and it was inspected by then-Governor-General Muhammad Ali Jinnah on 21 February 1948.[1]

The Pakistan Army Air Defence Corps provides an effective air defense against the foreign threats by employing ant-aircraft tactics to defend the airspace of the country.[1] Since its commissioning as an administrative corps, the army air defense is structured in regimental composition and has twelve active regiments.[3]

The education and training for the personnel to be commissioned in the corps of army air defence is provided at the School of Army Air Defence (SAAD) located in Malir Cantonment in Karachi, Sindh.[4] The corps is commanded by the director-general, usually serving as an active-duty two star rank, major-general, working under the Chief of the General Staff at the Army GHQ in Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan.[5]

## Units

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* 1 LOMAD
* 2 LOMAD
* 3 LOMAD (Born To Win) (Al Daqeeq)
* 4 HIMAD
* 5 Lt (SAM)AD (Fakhar-e-Quaid) (Sargodha 71)
* 6 Lt AD (Glorious)
* 13 Lt AD (The First Pakistani)
* 15 Lt AD
* 19 SP AD
* 20 Medium AD (Sky Saviours)
* 29 RCG AD (1957) (Rachna Warriors) (Zafarwal 71)
* 36 Lt AD ( Sher-e-Jang)
* 41 Med AD
* 43 Lt AD (Teer-Ba-Hadaf)
* 44 SP AD (The Desert Star)
* 52 LT AD (Eshorad) (Discipline Vigilance Dedication) (Sargodha 71)
* 58 Lt AD (Eshorad) (Fakhar-e-Badin) (Badin 71)
* 67  Lt SP AD
* 74 Lt AD
* 75 RCG AD (Katiba Mujahid)
* 85 Lt AD (Falak Shagaf)
* 88 Lt AD (Mardan-e-Haq)
* 89 SAM (ESHORAD) (The Al Fajr) (The First Eshorad)
* 94 Lt AD
* 95 Lt AD (GM) (Tiara Shikan)
* 96 Lomad (Shaheen Ba Hadaf)
* 97 RCG (Killer)
* 98 RCG (Paasdar e Bayyena) (Athanway)
* 100 Lt AD (Centurions)
* 102 Lt AD
* 103 Lt AD
* 104 Lt AD (Fakhar e Chaman)
* 123 SCR AD
* 124 SCR AD (Chokas o Tayyar)
* 125 SCR AD (Barwaqt O Yaqeeni)
* 126 Lt AD (G/M) Regiment (Victorious)
* 127 medium AD
* 133 RCG AD
* 134 RCG AD
* 135 Missile AD (Falak Shigaaf)
* 136 RCG AD (Aatish Fishan)
* 140 RCG AD (Fakhar E Chaman)
* 141 Lt AD(SAM) Regt (The Lightening One)
* 142 Missile AD
* 143 Missile AD
* 144 SP AD
* 145 Lt SP AD
* 146 SP AD (Bahimmat)
* 147 Lt AD
* 148 (SP) Lt AD (AK) (First To Fire) (Chinarees)
* 151 SP AD (The Pioneers) (Chambb)
* 152 Lt AD
* 153 SP AD (Fakhar E Tabuk) (Ek Tarwanja Sher Ka Panja)
* 154 SP AD
* 155 SP AD (Zarb E Katum)
* 157 Lt AD
* 156 Lt AD (COMP) (Falak Paima)
* 158 Lt AD
* 159 Lt AD
* 160 RCG
* 161 RCG (Nigah Buland)

Key:

* Lt AD = Light Air Defence
* RCG = Radar Control Guns
* SAM = Surface to Air Missile
* SP = Self Propelled

## List of commanders

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Rank and Name  | Start of Term  | End of Term

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Maj Gen Agha Masood Hassan,  | October 1987  | September 1991
Lt Gen Nazar Hussain,  | September 1991  | March 1996
Maj Gen Zahid Ehsan,  | March 1996  | April 1998
Lt Gen Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah,  | April 1998  | August 2000
Lt Gen Khateer Hasan Khan,  | August 2000  | May 2005
Maj Gen Tahir Mahmud Qazi,  | May 2005  | October 2006
Lt Gen Muhammad Ashraf Saleem,  | October 2006  | April 2010
Lt Gen Syed Muhammad Owais,  | April 2010  | April 2012
Lt Gen Zamir Ul Hassan Shah,  | April 2012  | December 2013
Lt Gen Muhammad Zahid Latif Mirza,  | December 2013  | December 2017
Lt Gen Hamood Uz Zaman Khan,  | December 2017  | December 2021
Lt Gen Muhammad Zafar Iqbal  | December 2021  | Present

## References

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1. ^ a b c "Army Air Defence – Pakistan Army". Retrieved 13 December 2023.
2. ^ "Pakistan Army Chief Shuffles Generals – Northlines". 3 October 2023. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
3. ^ "Annual Fire Practice Exercise" GlobalSecurity.org
4. ^ "HEC – National Digital Library – Bahria University". digitallibrary.edu.pk. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
5. ^ Alam, Dr Shah (1 July 2012). Pakistan Army: Modernisation, Arms Procurement and Capacity Building. Vij Books India Pvt Ltd. ISBN 978-93-81411-79-7. Retrieved 13 December 2023.

## External links

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* Army Air Defence (Official)
* GlobalSecurity.org, Global Security Website about the Army Air Defence

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