General Headquarters (Pakistan Army): Difference between revisions

{{Short description|HeadquartersDirect reporting post of the Pakistan Army.}}

| name = General Headquarters

| ensign = Pakistan Army Emblem.png

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| partof = [[Joint Staff Headquarters (Pakistan)|Joint Staff Headquarters]]

| location = =[[Chaklala Cantonment|Chaklala]], [[Rawalpindi District|Rawalpindi]], [[Punjab, Pakistan|Punjab]] in Pakistan

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| ownership = [[Ministry of Defence (Pakistan)|Ministry of Defense]] (MoD)

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| controlledby = [[Chief of the General Staff (Pakistan)|Chief of the General Staff]]

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| built = {{Start date and age|1851}}<br>{{small|(By [[British Indian Army|British Army in India]])}}

| built_for = [[:Category:National army headquarters|National Army HQ]] of [[Pakistan Armed Forces]]

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[[File:Secretary Kerry Participates in a Wreath Laying Ceremony at the General Headquarters (16246573276).jpg|thumb|250px|right|{{small|John Kerry, then-Secretary of State, at the pavilion of the Army GHQ in 2015.}}]]

The '''General Headquarters''' (abbreviated '''Army GHQ'''{{rp|230}}<ref name="Oxford University Press, Nawaz, 2008">{{cite book |last1=Nawaz |first1=Shuja |title=Crossed Swords: Pakistan, Its Army, and the Wars Within |date=2008 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Karachi, Sind, Pakistan |isbn=978-0-19-547660-6 |pages=655 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jKyfAAAAMAAJ&q=ghq |access-date=30 December 2023 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Alam |first1=Shah |title=Pakistan Army: Modernisation, Arms Procurement, and Capacity Building |date=2012 |publisher=Vij Books India |isbn=978-93-81411-20-9 |url=https://wwwbooks.google.com/books/edition/_/94BEMwEACAAJ?hlid=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiCpN7kgraDAxVlh-4BHcVRB9MQre8FegQIDBAF94BEMwEACAAJ |access-date=30 December 2023 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="www.ppra.org.pk">{{cite web |title=General Headquarters (Army) |url=https://www.ppra.org.pk/dad_org.asp?orgid=521&orgname=General%20Headquarters%20(Army) |website=www.ppra.org.pk |publisher=Public Procurement Regulatory Authority |access-date=30 December 2023}}</ref>) is the [[headquarters]]direct reporting and the command post <!--- Headquarters? Army GHQ is not the HQ of the Pakistan Armed Forces---> of the [[Pakistan Army]], located in the [[Chaklala Cantonment|Chaklala]] at the vicinity of [[Rawalpindi District|Rawalpindi]], adjacent to the [[Joint Staff Headquarters (Pakistan)|Joint Staff Headquarters]] (JS HQ).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://qz.com/india/1487285/an-indians-trip-into-rawalpindis-pakistan-army-headquarters/|title=What an Indian saw inside the Pakistan Army headquarters|date=December 7, 2018|website=Quartz}}</ref>

In 1851, the [[British Army]] in [[India]] made an permanent [[Rawalpindi Cantonment|headquarter]] in Rawalpindi when [[Marquess of Dalhousie]] decided to stationed the [[53rd (Shropshire) Regiment of Foot|53rd Infantry Regiment]] to protect [[British India|India]] from Afghan intervention.<ref name="L. P. Sen"/> In 1854, [[Robert Milman]] from the [[Diocese of Calcutta (Church of North India)|Diocese of Calcutta]] had built the city's first Garrison Church and a telegraph office.{{rp|189}}<ref name="Oxford University Press, Coughley, 2000">{{cite book |last1=Cloughley |first1=Brian |title=A History of the Pakistan Army: Wars and Insurrections |date=2000 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-579374-1 |pages=435 |url=https://wwwbooks.google.com/books/edition/A_History_of_the_Pakistan_Army/5UvfAAAAMAAJ?hlid=en&gbpv=15UvfAAAAMAAJ&bsqq=GHQ |access-date=2 January 2024 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="L. P. Sen"/> It is also the site where Robert Milman is buried following his death in Rawalpindi in 1876.<ref name="L. P. Sen"/>

On 14 August 1947, [[Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistan Army]] [[General (United Kingdom)|General]] [[Frank Messervy]] decided to establish the army headquarters of the Pakistan Army at the [[Rawalpindi Cantonment|Rawalpindi]], which was also the headquarter of the [[Northern Command (India)|Northern Command]] of the former [[British Indian Army]]; Gen. Messervy established it as "Army GHQ Pakistan", which he derived from [[GHQ India]].<ref name="L. P. Sen">{{cite book|author=L. P. Sen|title=Slender Was the Thread|date=1 January 1994|publisher=South Asia Books|isbn=978-0861316922|page=26|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lYHXmx4cOUsC&pg=PA26 |access-date=26 April 2012}}{{Dead link|date=May 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref name="Shreenivas Kumar">{{cite book|author=Shreenivas Kumar Sinha|title=A soldier recalls|year=1992|publisher=Spantech & Lancer|isbn=978-8170621614|page=86|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vHglFDHJi78C&pg=PA86 |access-date=26 April 2012}}</ref><ref name="Eqbal Ahmad">{{cite book|title=The Selected Writings of Eqbal Ahmad|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0231127110|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DPIiR6tEHqgC&pg=PA593 |author=Eqbal Ahmad|edition=1st|author2=Noam Chomsky |author3=Carollee Bengelsdorf |author4=Margaret Cerullo |access-date=4 May 2012|page=592|date=13 June 2006}}</ref> The Army's GHQ was viewed as a temporary post in Rawalpindi since its where Gen. Messervy was based in.{{rp|51}}<ref name="NYU Press, Cheema, 2002">{{cite book |last1=Cheema |first1=Pervaiz Iqbal |title=The Armed Forces of Pakistan |date=2002 |publisher=NYU Press |isbn=978-0-8147-1633-5 |url=https://wwwbooks.google.com/books/edition/The_Armed_Forces_of_Pakistan/cw_gduyRv5oC?hlid=en&gbpv=1cw_gduyRv5oC&bsqq=GHQ |access-date=31 December 2023 |language=en}}</ref> Since its establishment, the Army GHQ in Rawalpindi has faced many problems in [[civil–military relations]] context and [[Criticism of the Pakistan Armed Forces|criticism at broader level]] since the nation's capital was based in Karachi in past, and now in Islamabad.{{rp|51}}<ref name="NYU Press, Cheema, 2002"/>{{rp|75}}<ref>{{cite book |last1=Nawaz |first1=Shuja |title=Crossed Swords: Pakistan, Its Army, and the Wars Within |date=2008 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-547660-6 |url=https://wwwbooks.google.com/books/edition/Crossed_Swords/jKyfAAAAMAAJ?hlid=en&gbpv=1jKyfAAAAMAAJ&bsqq=GHQ |access-date=2 January 2024 |language=en}}</ref> Until 2006, the Army GHQ's command post was based in [[Rawalpindi Cantonment|Rawalpindi]] but later moved to [[Chaklala Cantonment|Chaklala]], near the vicinities of the [[PAF Base Nur Khan|PAF Base Chaklala]] and the JS HQ military headquarters.<ref name="NYU Press, Cheema, 2002" />

There are ten branches of the Pakistan Army that are headed by the [[Lieutenant general (Pakistan)|lieutenant-generals]] and multiple administrative corps that are commanded by the director-generals who are ranked at the [[Major general|major-general]].{{rp|47}}<ref name="NYU Press, Cheema, 2002" /> Each of the army's branches and the director-generals of the administrative corps works under the [[Chief of the General Staff (Pakistan)|Chief of the General Staff]] (CGS).<ref name="Vij Books India Pvt Ltd, Alam. 2012">{{cite book |last1=Alam |first1=Dr Shah |title=Pakistan Army: Modernisation, Arms Procurement and Capacity Building |date=1 July 2012 |publisher=Vij Books India Pvt Ltd |isbn=978-93-81411-79-7 |url=https://wwwbooks.google.com/books/edition/Pakistan_Army/WvapCQAAQBAJ?hlid=en&gbpv=1WvapCQAAQBAJ&bsqq=chief%20of%20general%20staff |access-date=31 December 2023 |language=en}}</ref> The chief of general staff, who usually heads the Army GHQ Staff, reports directly to chief of army staff on daily routine basis.<ref name="Vij Books India Pvt Ltd, Alam. 2012"/>

The Chief of Army Staff Secretariat is not considered as aparta part of the army branch but functions separately as an office of the chief of army staff.{{rp|47}}<ref name="NYU Press, Cheema, 2002" />

|1=Vice-Chief of General Staff-CGS(A)

|2=Vice-Chief of General Staff-CGS(B)

|3=Dte. ofDG Military Operations

|4=Corps ofDG Military Intelligence

|5=Dte.DG Inspection and Technical Development

|6=Dte.DG Organization and Methods

|8=Dte.DG Weapons and Equipment

|1=Vice Chief of Logistics Staff-CLS(A)

|2=Vice Chief of Logistics Staff-CLS(B)

|3=Dte.DG of Logistics

|4=Dte.DG of [[National Logistics Corporation]]

|5=Commandant [[Pakistan Army Corps of Service|Army Service Corps]]

|7=Commandant [[Pakistan Army Corps of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering|Corps of EME]]

|8=DG of [[Pakistan Army Aviation Corps|Aviation Corps]]

|10=DG of Supply & Transport

|1=DG [[Infantry Branch (Pakistan Army)|Infantry Brnch.]]

|2=DG [[Pakistan Army Armoured Corps|Armored Corps]]

|3=DG [[Regiment of Artillery (Pakistan)|Artillery]]

|4=DG [[Pakistan Army Air Defence Corps|Air Defence Corps]]

|5=DG [[Pakistan Army Corps of Engineers|Engineers]]

|6=DG [[Pakistan Army Aviation Corps|Army Aviation Corps]]

|11=Dte. Personal Administration (PA)

|8=DG of Physical fitness and Sports

}}

|1=Deputy Surgeon General
|2=[[Pakistan Army Medical Corps|Medical Corps]]

|23=DG Medicine
|4=DG Surgery
|5=DG of [[Pakistan Armed Forces Nursing Service|Nursing Corps]]

|36=IG of [[Combined Military Hospitals]]

|47=DG of Medical Services (Inter-Services)

|58=DG of Medical Services, Azad Kashmir

|69=DG of Medical Services, (Navy)

}}

Due to being a significant command post of the army, theThe [[Pakistani Taliban|Taliban insurgents]] have repeatedly carried series of violent terrorist attacks atattacked the premises of the GHQ,headquarters. withThe first attack reportedtook place in 2007.<ref name="Foreign Policy, Abbas, 2023">{{cite news |last1=Abbas |first1=Hassan |title=Deciphering the attack on Pakistan’sPakistan's Army headquarters |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2009/10/11/deciphering-the-attack-on-pakistans-army-headquarters/ |access-date=2 January 2024 |work=Foreign Policy |agency=Foreign Policy |publisher=Foreign Policy |date=October 11, 2009}}</ref> Others followed in 2008, resulting in [[Operation Janbaz]]; the [[2008 Lal Masjid bombing]]; the [[December 2009 Rawalpindi attack]]; and the [[2014 Rawalpindi suicide bombing]].

To prevent the Taliban's repeated infiltration and to address the issue of increase security, the Army's GHQheadquarters, (together with JSJoint HQ)Staff Headquarters, has been slowly moving its command infrastructure to Islamabad to integrate with the navy and air force's headquarters that are located in much safer zones of Islamabad, the nation's capital, since 2017.<ref>{{cite news |title=Pakistan Army to get over 1,000 acres for new General Headquarters |url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/pakistan-army-to-get-over-1000-acres-for-new-general-headquarters/articleshow/62269761.cms |access-date=2 January 2024 |work=The Economic Times |date=27 December 2017}}</ref>

==ExternalFurther linksreading==

*Cloughley, Brian (2000). ''A History of the Pakistan Army: Wars and Insurrections''. Oxford University Press: Oxford University Press. p.&nbsp;435. {{ISBN |978-0-19-579374-1}}. Retrieved 2 January 2024.

*Nawaz, Shuja (2008). ''Crossed Swords: Pakistan, Its Army, and the Wars Within''. Karachi, Sind, Pakistan: Oxford University Press. p.&nbsp;655. {{ISBN |978-0-19-547660-6}}. Retrieved 30 December 2023.