The Commander of the Eastern Command was a senior military position in the Pakistan Army, the post was given to a lieutenant General who was head of the...
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was designated the Commander of Eastern Command. After the partition of India by The United Kingdom, The Islamic Republic of Pakistan was divided into...
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The Eastern Command is one of the six operational commands of the Indian Army. It is headquartered in Vijay Durg (formerly known as Fort William) in the...
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agreement, the Pakistani government surrendered the Armed Forces Eastern Command, thereby enabling the establishment of the People's Republic of Bangladesh...
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A. A. K. Niazi (redirect from Jackal of Bengal)
Pakistani military officer. During the Bangladesh War of Independence and the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, he commanded the Pakistani Eastern Command in...
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the Eastern Command of the Pakistan military signed the instrument of surrender on 16 December 1971 in Dhaka, marking the formation of East Pakistan as...
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Tikka Khan (redirect from General Tikka Khan and East Pakistan)
the commander of IV Corps while acting as martial law administrator in West Pakistan under President Yahya Khan. In 1971, he took over the command of...
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East Pakistan was the eastern province of Pakistan between 1955 and 1971, restructured and renamed from the province of East Bengal and covering the territory...
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The Chief of the Army Staff (COAS), formerly called the Commander-in-Chief (C-in-C of the Pakistan Army), is challenged with the responsibility of commanding...
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with Northern Command to form the North-western Army. It was re-raised in 1947 following the transfer of Northern Command HQ to Pakistan. Until 1972, it...
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The Eastern Naval Command is one of the three command-level formations of the Indian Navy. It is headquartered in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. The command...
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In the eastern wing, the Pakistan Navy heavily depended on her gun boat squadron. The Pakistan's Eastern Naval Command was in direct command of Flag...
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the land service branch and the largest component of the Pakistan Armed Forces. The president of Pakistan is the supreme commander of the army. The Chief...
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the Commander British Forces in Pakistan, located at Bombay and Karachi, respectively, and with the responsibility of overseeing the repatriation of British...
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the arrangement reverted to four commands again :- Eastern Command, Northern Command, Southern Command and Western Command. In 1937, Western Command was...
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The Pakistani prisoners of war in the Indo-Pakistani war of 1971 were the servicemen deployed in the Eastern Command of the Pakistan armed forces who were...
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branch of the Pakistan Armed Forces. The Chief of the Naval Staff, a four-star admiral, commands the navy and is a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee...
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Sofiya Qureshi (category Recipients of the Sena Medal)
and Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri about Operation Sindoor. GOC-in-C Eastern Command Commendation (2003)[clarification needed] UN Peacekeeping Medal (2017)...
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The Army Strategic Forces Command (ASFC) is a strategic and missile formation of the Pakistan Army.: 338 Headquartered at the Joint Staff HQ in Chaklala...
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Indian Army (redirect from History of the Indian Army)
By 16 December, Pakistan had lost sizeable territory on both the eastern and western fronts. On 16 December 1971, under the command of Lt. General J. S...
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The Eastern Air Command is one of the five operational commands of the Indian Air Force. Currently headquartered in Shillong in Meghalaya. Named No. 1...
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The Commander-in-Chief, Strategic Forces Command is the head of the Strategic Forces Command, the integrated tri-service command responsible for the management...
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The Eastern Sabah Security Command (ESSCOM) is a Malaysian security area that covers 1,400 km of the east coast of Sabah from Kudat to Tawau. It was announced...
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Jagjit Singh Aurora (category Generals of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971)
theater, Gen Aurora received the surrender from the Governor of East Pakistan and Commander of the Eastern Command of the Pakistan Army, Lt Gen A. A. K. Niazi...
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appoints the president of Pakistan as the civilian commander-in-chief of the Pakistan Armed Forces. The Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), by statute a four-star...
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assets. The president of Pakistan is the commander-in-chief of the Pakistan Armed Forces and the chain of command is organized under the Chairman of the Joint...
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Mohammad Shariff (category Admirals of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971)
1971. After the war, he was taken as a war prisoner along with Lieutenant-General A.A.K Niazi, the commander of Pakistan Army's Eastern Command after conceding...
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PNS Ghazi (redirect from Pakistani submarine Ghazi)
After the defection of Pakistan Navy's Bengali officers and sailors to India, the Eastern Command (Pakistan) was under intense pressure to counter the insurgency...
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William Harrison (brigadier) (category Military personnel of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965)
officer in the Pakistan Army during the early 1970s, serving during the Bangladesh Liberation War in the Eastern Command of the Pakistan Army under A...
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Asif Ghafoor (category Pakistan Army lieutenant generals)
Corps Commander Quetta and the 20th director general of the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR). Asif Ghafoor is a graduate of the Command & Staff...
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