Pakistan Army Corps of Service explained

Unit Name:ASC Corp Pakistan
Type:Combat service support
Role:Administrative and staffing oversight.
Size:10 Battalions
Garrison:Service Center in Nowshera Cantonment, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Garrison Label:HQ/Garrison
Nickname:ASC
Motto:Oye Hoye
Colors:Blue, White
Colors Label:Colors Identification
Equipment:Nil
Battles:Nil
Anniversaries:1947
Decorations:Military Decorations of Pakistan military
Battle Honours:Nil
Website:Facebook– Army Service Corps
Commander1:Maj-Gen. Usman Haque
Commander1 Label:Director-General
Identification Symbol Label:War Flag

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

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. Originally, the service corps was headquartered in Chaklala cantonment with Colonel Abdullah Jan as its commandant until 1950.[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] [7] [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.[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.

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]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: ASC . . 17 December 2023 . en.
  2. Web site: Army Service Corps . 17 December 2023.
  3. Web site: Army Service Corps . www.facebook.com . 17 December 2023.
  4. News: COAS visits Army Service Corps Centre in Nowshera . 17 December 2023 . Dunya News . Dünya News channel. . 14 February 2008 . en.
  5. Book: Dept . Great Britain Army . The Army List . 1952 . H.M. Stationery Office . 17 December 2023 . en.
  6. Book: Alam . Dr Shah . Pakistan Army: Modernisation, Arms Procurement and Capacity Building . 1 July 2012 . Vij Books India Pvt Ltd . 978-93-81411-79-7 . 17 December 2023 . en.
  7. Book: Cheema . Pervaiz I. . Riemer . Manuel . Pakistan's Defence Policy 1947-58 . 22 August 1990 . Springer . 978-1-349-20942-2 . 17 December 2023 . en.
  8. Book: Cheema . Pervaiz Iqbal . The Armed Forces of Pakistan . 2002 . NYU Press . 978-0-8147-1633-5 . 17 December 2023 . en.
  9. Book: The Story of the Royal Army Service Corps and Royal Corps of Transport, 1945-1982 . 1984 . L. Cooper . 978-0-436-50606-2 . 17 December 2023 . en.
  10. Web site: Army Service Corps . . 17 December 2023 . en.