XII Corps | |
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Active | 1984 |
Country | Pakistan |
Branch | Pakistan Army |
Type | Corps |
Size | ~30,000 approximately (Though this may vary as units are rotated) |
Corps Headquarters | Quetta Cantonment, Balochistan, [Pakistan]] |
Nickname(s) | Quetta Corps [1] [2] Southern Command: 309–311 [3] |
Colors Identification | Red, white and black |
Anniversaries | 1985 |
Engagements | Balochistan conflict |
Decorations | Military Decorations of Pakistan Military |
Commanders | |
Commander | Lt-Gen. Rahat Naseem |
Notable commanders | General K.S. Wynne General Abdul Waheed Lt-Gen. Sarfraz Ali Lt-Gen.Asif Ghafoor |
The XII Corps is a field corps of the Pakistan Army currently headquartered in Quetta, Balochistan in Pakistan. [4]
With reserves, paramilitary, and other military formations supporting the XII Corps, the corps has an area of responsibility of Balochistan and oversees its mission of responsibility to protect as an army's regional formation in Pakistan's security apparatus known as the Southern Command.: 309–311 [3]
The Afghan and Iranian immigration to Pakistan and the Afghan National Army's military raids in Chaman prompted the Army GHQ to form and raise the military formations to guard its western borders in 1984.: 64 [5] The XII Corps was raised with its HQ in Quetta Cantonment as Lt-Gen. K.K. Afridi becoming its first commander in 1985. [4] [6] Its military engagement has been limited to the Balochistan conflict, which it mainly tackles through the Frontier Corps (paramilitary) and local police department. [4] [7]
Similar to the V Corps in Sindh, the XII Corps has an area of expertise in desert warfare, and oversees security operations together with the local law enforcement, mechanized divisions guarding the nation's desert and dune ranges, and paramilitary to ensure the national defenses of the Pakistan.: 311 [3]
Together with the air force units, naval bases, marines camps, paramilitaries, army reserves, and air forces ranges, the XII Corps forms and leads the major regional formation in Pakistan's security spectrum known as the Southern Command. [7] : 309–311 [3]
The XII Corps has not seen military action against the Indian Army (east) nor the Afghan National Army (west) but tackled counterinsurgency time to time which led to the troop rotations based on the strategic calculations. [4] The XII Corps has receives reinforcement in its missions on war on terror and is based on the known information publicly available:
Structure of XII Corps | |||||||||
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Corps | Corps HQ | Corps Commander | Assigned Units | Unit HQ | |||||
XII Corps | Quetta | Rahat Naseem Ahmed Khan | 33rd Infantry Division | Khuzdar | |||||
41st Infantry Division | Quetta | ||||||||
44th Light Infantry Division | (Gwadar) | ||||||||
Independent Infantry Brigade | (Turbat) | ||||||||
Independent Armoured Brigade | (Khuzdar) | ||||||||
Independent Infantry Brigade | (Gwadar) | ||||||||
Independent Engineer Brigade | U/I Location | ||||||||
Independent Signal Brigade | U/I Location |
Lieutenant-General | Rahat Naseem Ahmed Khan | November 2023 | |
Asif Ghafoor | August 2022 | November 2023 | |
Sarfraz Ali | December 2020 | August 2022 | |
Muhammad Waseem Ashraf | September 2019 | December 2020 | |
Asim Saleem Bajwa | September 2017 | September 2019 | |
Aamer Riaz | October 2015 | September 2017 | |
Nasser Khan Janjua | September 2013 | October 2015 | |
Alam Khattak | October 2011 | September 2013 | |
Javed Zia | April 2010 | October 2011 | |
Khalid Shameem Wynne | April 2007 | April 2010 | |
Shahid Hamid | September 2003 | October 2004 | |
Abdul Qadir Baloch | October 2001 | September 2003 | |
Mushtaq Hussain | October 1999 | October 2001 | |
Tariq Pervaiz | May 1997 | October 1999 | |
Saranjam Khan | 1995 | May 1997 | |
Lieutenant general Zia Ullah Khan | January 1993 | 1995 | |
Abdul Waheed Kakar | August 1989 | January 1993 | |
Syed Zakir Ali Zaidi | May 1987 | August 1989 | |
Khushdil Khan Afridi | 1985 | May 1987 |
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