With less strategic depth and advent of beyond battle field range artillery, defensive posture is no more effective approach for Pak army. We need to eqiup our forces with more offensive weaponery to enable them penetrate deep into enemy territory rather than fighting to hold our own soil.
We should raise 3rd strike corpse in Pano Aqil / Jeccobabad to improve our offensive in south. This can be done using armoured brigades of 5th and 12th corpse. One new infantry division may be raised to support armoured division.
Also we should raise a mountain corpse in Gilgit. This may be done by using existing 5 brigades of Northern Force command and some detachments from 12th division or other formations of 10th corpse.
Pakistan right now faces aggressive doctrines on both east and west north or south every country in the region is in aggressive posture. The delimma that Pakistan forces face is being out gunned on both side epically east and west. There are few errors in current doctrine as well as assessments.
1 China: Pakistan Army assume that China will play an important role in lots of current fronts somewhere there it is heavy dependency on China for political military as well psychological fronts.
2. Inability to open new fronts to counter the aggressive enemy. INDIA AND Afghanistan face lots of internal issues that can be used to our advantage and it should cross religious or ethnic lines. In this day and age Pam army is not able to take advantage of vacant spaces left in the region to dig the forces in and gave some sort of presence anywhere and everywhere epically within the region.
Israel is in Afghanistan and Iran in Syria. Even INDIA wants piece of pie in the region but there conviction and military nervousness is causing them to delay from having it. I think there is a lot of space for multiple objectives working with allied countries with in the region and set our doctrine on those foundations for now.
And they are as follows
1 Making sure that Israel and Indian influence in the region in contained through developing partnerships with countries such as Iran Saudis Turkey and other smaller like minded nations. Establishing more military bases and joint operations. Isis ins next door now and if they can venture in our neighborhood then Pak army along with Turkish should return the favour at their doorstep.
A deployment of brigade size special ops based out of Turkey Iraq or Saudi Arabia.
B Setting up a squadron or two of air asserts for their support.
2 Total mastery of War of movement
Pak army faces similar situation as Germans did surrounded and out gunned on both side they were able to overcome that through mastery of War of movement which works in short quick conflicts and in this nuclear age a conflict may last 2 days to a week before calls for seize fire and nukes come in to play so perfect reading lessons of how to surprise encircle and destroy the enemy quickly and move either forward or set up new defences.
I'm not a scholar or anything but I believe in case of Pakistan a Corp size totally armored battle group should be deployed. 3 divisions totally armored with tanks Self propelled guns and personal carrier including mechanized elements. They should be supported by independent air squdrons of attack helis as well as air cover assets. In time of conflict they should be able to penetrate from one single point and their primary job to encircle the enemy forces where ever it's best epically one in north. It can cause enemy to divert the forces to contain the breakthrough and instead of entering into Pak territory they will be filling gaps and divert resources there. It can be done easily epically in case of Indian northern command and central command and if a gap can be established between two then their will be panicked Indians running around to pick either to support or counter offensive.Our current formation structure is two small to carry out operations on large scale but experience and lesson learned in waziristan and entering in no go before areas can come in handy. This formation should be able to move anywhere along the border with 10 hrs time epically at dark to completely reap the rewards. Different operations and phases of early stage of German invasion of soviets are good example right uptill battle of Moscow is a great learning of War of movement
So to conclude my remarks I would suggest on 2 extreme points
A Pakistan shouldn't be worried about getting involved in affairs even if you are sitting at the back benches because being their gives you better assessment of situation than an ally giving you info
B Master the art of movement by building up land formations armored and mechanized for swift war. Pakistan is not a big air power or else airborne divisions and heavy fighters can do the job easily
You have to show the enemy that you alone even without bringing nukes are way more than what they can handle.
