Title: Pakistan Ministry of Defence
Pakistan (Farrfin) - February 5, 2011 10:19 PM (GMT)
Key Personnel
Politicians
Minister of Defence: Ahmad Mukhtar
Minister of Defence Production: Abdul Qayyum Khan Jatoi
Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee: Khalid Shameem Wynne
Chief of Army Staff: General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani
Chief of Air Force Staff: Air Chief Marshal Rao Qamar Suleman
Chief of Naval Staff: Admiral Noman Bashir
Military Advisers
Military Secretary to the Prime Minister: Lieutenant-General Mohsin Kamal
Military Intelligence
Director General of Military Intelligence: Major General Naushad Ahmed Kayani
Director General of Air Force Intelligence: Air Vice-Marshal Hafeez Ullah
Director General of Naval Intelligence: Rear-Admiral Waseem Akram
Budget
Budget and Procurements of the Armed Forces of Pakistan
Pakistan (Farrfin) - February 6, 2011 09:04 AM (GMT)
Pakistan Army
Total Active Manpower: 550,000
Total Reserve Personnel: 500,000
Chief of Army Staff: General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani
Main Battle Tanks
450 Al-Khalid
320 T-80UD
300 Type 85-IIAP
400 Al-Zarrar
400 Type 69-II
500 Type 63
1,200 Type 59 (In Storage)
Armoured Personnel Carriers/Infantry Fighting Vehicles
200 Hamza IFV
149 Al-Fahd IFV
800 Talha APC
500 Sa'ad APC
1,600 M113 APC
120 BTR-20 APC
1,260 Otokar Akrep Light Jeep
200 Al Qaswa Logistical Vehicle
200 M88 Armoured Recovery Vehicle
Armoured Bridging Vehicles
400 M60A1 Armoured Vehicle Launched Bridge
400 M48 Armoured Vehicle Launched Bridge
Self-Propelled Artillery
60 M110
200 M109A2
350 M109A4
115 M109A5
90 NORINCO SH1
Multiple Launch Rocket System
?? A-100
?? KRL-21
Towed Artillery
28 M115
30 MKEK Panter
148 M198
144 M114
30 M59
410 Type 59-1
490 Type 54
200 Type 60
115 M56
216 M101
200 Type 56
Aircraft
39 AH-1F/S Cobra
9 UH-60M (attack variant)
30 Aérospatiale SA 330 Puma
2 Cessna Citation Bravo
2 Aero Commander 840
85 Mi-17 (+28 to be delivered Q1 2012)
19 Bell 206 Jet Ranger
45 Bell 407
21 Bell 412
40 UH-1 Huey
10 Eurocopter AS350
25 Aérospatiale SA 330 Puma
Special Service Group
Total Manpower: 7,000 [SIC]
Commanding Officer: Major General Farrukh Bashir
The members of the Special Service Group are Pakistan's primary special operations forces, designed to carry out similar operations as the US Green Berets or the British SAS.
Pakistan (Farrfin) - February 7, 2011 09:57 PM (GMT)
Pakistan Air Force
Total Active Manpower: 65,000
Total Reserve Personnel: 10,000
Chief of Air Staff: Air Chief Marshal Rao Qamar Suleman
Combat Aircraft
30 JF-17 Thunder (250-300 to be delivered)
63 F-16 Fighting Falcon (45 F-16A/B Block 15, 18 F-16C/D Block 52+ - Note that F-16A/B Block 15 variant will be upgraded to F-16C/D Block 52+ standard)
121 Dassault Mirage III
60 Dassault Mirage 5
192 Chengdu F-7 Skybolt
41 Nanchang A-5
Transport Aircraft
1 Airbus A310 (VIP Transport)
1 Cessna Citation V (VIP Transport)
2 Gulf Stream IV (VIP Transport)
1 Embraer Phenom (VIP Transport [3 to be delivered]
1 C-12 Huron
12 C-130 Hercules
4 CASA CN-235
2 Harbin Y-12
1 Saab 2000
Aerial Refuelling
3 Il-78 (1 to be delivered from Ukraine)
Helicopters
8 Mi-17
15 Alouette III
Special Mission Aircraft
3 Dassault Falcon 20 [Electronic Warfare variant]
2 Saab 2000 Erieye (2 to be delivered) [AEW&C]
1 Shaanxi ZDK-03 [AEW&C]
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
25 SELEX Galileo Falco
Special Service Wing
Total Manpower: 1,000 [SIC]
Commanding Officer: Group Captain Sohail Ahmed
The 312th Special Service Wing is an independent special operations division of the Pakistan Air Force. They are trained to carry out missions such as unconventional warfare, special reconnaissance, sabotage, raids, counter-terrorism operations, counter-proliferation operations, VIP protection, combat search and rescue and information and intelligence gathering.
Pakistan (Farrfin) - February 8, 2011 09:57 PM (GMT)
Pakistan Navy
Total Active Manpower: 24,000
Total Reserve Personnel: 5,000
Chief of Naval Staff: Admiral Noman Bashir
Frigates
3 F-22P Zulfiquar class frigate (1 under construction, to be delivered Q2 2012)
6 Tariq class (British Type 21 frigate)
Guided Missile
1 Alamgir class (Oliver Hazard Perry class)
Mine Hunters
3 Eridan class
Missile Boats
2 Jalalat class
TBC...
Pakistan Marines
Total Active Manpower:
Total Reserve Personnel:
Special Service Group Navy
Total Active Manpower:
Total Reserve Personnel:
Pakistan (Farrfin) - February 8, 2011 10:03 PM (GMT)
Pakistan National Command Authority
Nuclear Stockpile
105 Warheads [VSIC]
The National Command Authority is an agency of the Pakistan Government charged with exercising command and control over Pakistan's nuclear deterrent and supervising Pakistan's nuclear programme. It is chaired by the Prime Minister, with Lieutenant General Khalid Kidwai acting as his deputy.
Ballistic Missiles
Pakistan (X) - June 23, 2011 08:02 PM (GMT)
Military Precautions - Karachi Earthquake
[Secret - SIC]
Special Service Group (SSG) and Special Service Wing are on high alert to respond (namely counter-terrorism) to any serious security threats in the affected region.
Security at Paradise Point nuclear reactors (located in Karachi) increased. Reactors (luckily) are not believed to have been damaged by the earthquakes.
[Top Secret - VSIC]
National Command Authority is on high alert for counter-value strikes in event of threat to Pakistani security by any unscrupulous rivals.
Pakistan (X) - June 27, 2011 02:37 AM (GMT)
Communique from President Zardari to Ministry of Defence