Pakistan Army Air Defence Corps

The Pakistan Army Air Defence Command, (Urdu: ﺁرمى ایئر ڈیفینس کمانڈ; Army Defence Command, abbreviated as (II)ADC), is an active military administrative combatant staff corps of the Pakistan Army and a major combative formation tasked with air defences of the country from foreign threats. The Corps is stationed and headquartered at the Chaklala Army Cantonment in Rawalpindi, Punjab Province of Pakistan.

Pakistan Army Air Defence
Active10 October 1989 - Present
Country Pakistan
Branch Pakistan Army
TypeArmy Corps
RoleCombined arms formation
Air Defence Warfare
Size50,000 approximately (vary as troops are rotated)
Part ofPakistan Air Defense Command
HQ/Command Control HeadquarterRawalpindi, Punjab Province, Pakistan
EngagementsKargil War
2001–2002 India–Pakistan standoff
DecorationsMilitary Decorations of Pakistan Military
Commanders
Current
commander		Lt Gen Hamood uz Zaman
An Army Air Defence Regiment lowers the Regimental Flag during march past

The command was formed following military exercises where Pakistan's military learned of its weakness in providing air cover over a moving battlefield.[1]

It consists of a total of five military divisions spread across two geographic districts; one tasked with air defence of the northern region of Pakistan headquartered in Lahore and the other with the southern region commanded from Quetta. Army Air Defence has its own school named as School of Army Air Defence (SAAD).

List of commanders
Rank and Name Start of Term End of Term
Maj Gen Agha Masood Hassan, October 1987 September 1991
Lt Gen Nazar Hussain, September 1991 March 1996
Maj Gen Zahid Ehsan, March 1996 April 1998
Lt Gen Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah, April 1998 August 2000
Lt Gen Khateer Hasan Khan, August 2000 May 2005
Maj Gen Tahir Mahmud Qazi, May 2005 October 2006
Lt Gen Muhammad Ashraf Saleem, October 2006 April 2010
Lt Gen Syed Muhammad Owais, April 2010 April 2012
Lt Gen Zamir Ul Hassan Shah, April 2012 December 2013
Lt Gen Muhammad Zahid Latif Mirza, December 2013 December 2017
Lt Gen Hamood Uz Zaman Khan, December 2017 present

Present day and order of battle
  • HQ AAD COMD, Rawalpindi
    • 3rd Air Defence Division, Sargodha Cantt
      • 3rd Air Defence Brigade Sargodha Cantt
      • 4 Air Defense Brigade Lahore Cantt
    • 4th Air Defence Division, Malir

References
  1. "Annual Fire Practice Exercise" GlobalSecurity.org
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