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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://www.google.com/books/edition/A_History_of_the_Pakistan_Army/5UvfAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=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, [[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", 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}}</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://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Armed_Forces_of_Pakistan/cw_gduyRv5oC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=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://www.google.com/books/edition/Crossed_Swords/jKyfAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=GHQ |access-date=2 January 2024 |language=en}}</ref> Until
Since 2017, the Pakistan Army has been slowly moving its headquarters to nation's capital, [[Islamabad]] to be able to merge with the air force and the navy.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1379072 |title=Army to be allotted over 1,000 acres for new GHQ, other offices |author=Kashif Abbasi |publisher=[[Dawn Media Group]] |date=2017-12-27 |access-date=2019-07-24}}</ref>
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