Pakistan Army Corps of Service

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Pakistan Army Corps of Service
Pakistan Army Emblem.png
Badge of the Pakistan Army.
Active1947;77 years ago (1947)
CountryFlag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan
BranchFlag of the Pakistani Army.svg  Pakistan Army
Type Combat service support
Role Administrative and staffing oversight.
SizeVaries
HQ/GarrisonService Center in Nowshera Cantonment, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Nickname(s)ASC
Colors IdentificationBlue, White
  
Anniversaries1947
Engagements Military history of Pakistan
Decorations Military Decorations of Pakistan military
Website Facebook– Army Service Corps
Commanders
Director-General
Maj-Gen. Usman Haque
Insignia
War Flag
Flag of the Pakistani Army.svg
Pakistan Army's ASC trucks moving personnel in 1971. Pakistan Army Trucks 1971.jpg
Pakistan Army's ASC trucks moving personnel in 1971.

The Pakistan Army Corps of Service is a military administrative and combat service support branch of the Pakistan Army. [1] [2] [3]

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Reporting from its headquarter in Nowshera Cantonment, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan, the service corps is one of the important military logistics branch in the Pakistani military, and is commanded by its director-general, Maj-Gen. Usman Haq as of 2023. [4]

Overview

The Army Service Corps is one of the largest military administrative corps that was commissioned into the Pakistan Army from the partition of the former British Indian Army's Service Corps in November 1947. [2] Originally, the service corps was headquartered in Chaklala cantonment with Colonel Abdullah Jan as its commandant until 1950.:1033 [5] The service corps is Pakistan army's most senior administrative corps with its mission for management of transportation and military logistics since 1947. [6] :83 [7] :55 [8]

From 1947 till 1957, the British Army provided the crucial training support and education on military logistics its officers who were commissioned in the Army Service Corps.:518 [9] [10]

Since 1966, the Army Service Corps is now stationed in Nowshera along with its Army Service College that provides the necessary training and education and training for the personnel to be commissioned in the corps of service. [2]

The Army Service Corps is commanded by its director-general who is usually at two-star rank, major-general, working directly under the Chief of the General Staff, reporting from its headquarters in Nowshera. [4] [6]

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