Pakistan Army[/TD]
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[TH]Type[/TH]
[TD]Nuclear warfare[/TD]
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[TH]HQ/Command Control Headquarter[/TH]
[TD]Rawalpindi, Punjab Province[/TD]
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[TH]Colors Identification[/TH]
[TD]Red and White
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[TH="bgcolor: #B0C4DE, colspan: 2, align: center"]Commanders[/TH]
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[TH]Corps Commander[/TH]
[TD]Lt GenObaidullah Khan Khattak[/TD]
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[TH]Notable
commanders[/TH]
[TD]Lt Gen Ghulam Mustafa Lt Gen Syed Absar Hussain[/TD]
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The Army Strategic Forces Command (ASFC) is a major command of the Pakistan Army, which administers land-based nuclear weapons. Its comparable command includes the PAF's Air Force Strategic Command and the Navy's Naval Strategic Forces Command, all commands formed the unified command and control mechanism under the directorship and leadership of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee.
Significantly, it is a newer component of administrative corps of Pakistan Army. It is tasked to command all of Pakistan's land-based strategic forces.
[h=2]History[edit][/h]Before its establishment, the Pakistan Air Force's Air Force Strategic Command was completely responsible for protecting the nuclear assets and had control over the land and air-based nuclear weapons. The Air Force Strategic Command was active during the country's nuclear test experiments in 1998, and it had completely dismantle the role of the Army to take any decisions over the nuclear weapons. Its success influenced Chief of Army Staff and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff CommitteeGeneral Pervez Musharraf to established a new formation that was created in June 1999. General Pervez Musharraf desired to have a formal command and control structure for the employment of Pakistan land based nuclear weapons, completely independent from the Air Force.
The Command was established after Prime MinisterNawaz Sharif ordered nuclear tests in 1998, under codename Chagai-I and Chagai-II in Balochistan Province. The command structure includes the Nuclear Command Authority, Strategic Plans Division, and the Strategic Forces Commands of Air Force, and the Pakistan Navy.[SUP][1][/SUP] The formation itself became operational in March 2000. It became a fully fledged corps in 2004.
[h=2]Employment[edit][/h]The official remit of the formation is "the command and employment of all land-based strategic assets." This rather vague description seems to imply that it controls most, if not all, of Pakistans Ballistic launchers. While Pakistan is a nuclear weapons state, it is unknown at this time if ASFC is in possession or control of any nuclear warheads, though presumably in a nuclear war a good percentage of the warheads would be delivered to their targets by the launchers of the ASFC.
[h=2]List of commanders[edit][/h]
Lt Gen Ghulam Mustafa, April 2002 – May 2005
Lt Gen Khalid Munir Khan, May 2005 – April 2007
Lt Gen Syed Absar Hussain, April 2007 – October 2010
Lt Gen Jamil Haider, October 2010 – October 2011
Lt Gen Syed Tariq Nadeem Gilani, October 2011 – December 2013
The noo ram system is dead and the stink is reaching the noses of the slaves and as always it the slaves who do the dirty work the upper classes only try to clean their backsides ,the upper classes are not asking for the dead system to be buried, they want to embalm it and carry on as usual , but the system is beyond embalming , so let the slaves bury it