Dont know for sure but unconfirmed reports say this is to raise the 100,000 troops to be sent to KSA under a recent deal with Nawaz government.
please expand more . find out the source
because thats preposterous. even during the border wars between KSA and Yemen we never had more than 20 thousand troops during the 80s.
I am expecting a dedicated battalion for COIN ops. not to serve in another country and fight someone' else war on their behalf. ME is a sectarian mess and while Arabs are busy hacking each other ... the Israelis will soon finish them all off.
we got our own mess to clear its going to be a long war now. we expecting our own troops to increase up to 300K by end of this year or more. Saudis are strop enough to look after themselves.. they have battle experience from crushing Bahrain uprising anyway
How is it going to affect induction?
I mean to ask that weather they would increase the seats available per course??
you need to be clear.. with more details
you cant post a thread pretending to be an information or news and then mold it as a question.
battalion in what ? of what?
if its PMA then quote source and say it. its only a three letter word.
thumbs down to a poor thread
4th Pak Bttn is being raised in PMA to increase the number of officers only.
The loses which Pak Army has incurred over the last decade was of mainly junior ranked officers in the operations in SW & NW.
This additional Bttn will increase around 150 - 200 cadets in PMA in a course.
you clarified and I was thinking on same lines. I was thinking either it was just an additional inf unit being raised for COIN.or PMA... which makes it a worthy news. because thats not unusual.
Nobody is deploying forces in KSA .. We have forces in Middle East,some African and Central asian countries as trainers,advisors etc but not as combat troops..
look at the way the threat is created. typical deceptive sales man style.
seen it happening a lot on this forum. used to nuke such threads as MOD.. but thankfully I dont have to do that anymore