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Afghanistan–Pakistan Clashes (2024–present)
The 2024 Afghanistan–Pakistan clashes are a series of ongoing armed clashes consisting of cross-border airstrikes and exchanges of gunfire between Afghanistan and Pakistan. The conflict also separately includes the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), and Pakistani Taliban. The skirmishes took place over many locations along the Durand line, Afghanistan-Pakistan border, including North Waziristan, South Waziristan, Wanna, Pakistan, Wana, Dera Ismail Khan, Shangla, Khost, and Paktika. Subsequent attacks were also launched in Turbat and Gwadar in Balochistan, Pakistan, Balochistan province, by the Balochistan Liberation Army. Militant attacks on China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, CPEC and Pakistani military bases accommodating US aircraft pose a threat to Chinese and American interests in Pakistan. After de-escalation in March 2024, the conflict resurged in December 2024 with Pakistani airstrikes against Afghanistan, specifically in Paktika Province. Conflict in December marked the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmad Massoud
Ahmad Massoud (, ; born July 10, 1989) is an Afghan politician who is the founder and leader of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan. He is the eldest son of prominent Afghan anti-Soviet military leader Ahmad Shah Massoud, and was appointed as the CEO of the Massoud Foundation in November 2016. On 5 September 2019, he was declared his father's successor at his mausoleum in the Panjshir Valley. After the Taliban seized control of Panjshir Valley on 6 September 2021, Massoud evacuated towards Tajikistan along with former Vice President Amrullah Saleh. Massoud has since been leading the NRF operations from inside Tajikistan and participated in the Vienna conferences in working towards a democratic state in Afghanistan. The meetings brought together leading Afghan anti-Taliban figures, women's rights activists, and civil society representatives. Early life and education Ahmad Massoud was born into a Tajik family in 1989. He is the only son and the oldest of Ahmad Shah Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frontier Corps
The Frontier Corps (, reporting name: FC) are a group of four paramilitary forces of Pakistan, operating in the provinces of Balochistan (Pakistan), Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, to maintain law and order while overseeing the country's borders with Afghanistan and Iran. There are four Frontier Corps: Frontier Corps Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (North), FC KPK (North) and Frontier Corps Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (South), FC KPK (South) stationed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province (formed from the previously named North-West Frontier Province and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas), and Frontier Corps Balochistan (North), FC Balochistan (North) and Frontier Corps Balochistan (South), FC Balochistan (South) stationed in Balochistan, Pakistan, Balochistan province. The Frontier Corps are often confused with Frontier Constabulary as both forces are abbreviated as ''FC''. Frontier Corps are group of four paramilitary forces officered by the Pakistan Army. On the other hand, Frontier Constabula ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pakistan Naval Air Arm
The Pakistan Naval Air Arm (unofficially: Pakistan Naval Aviation) is the naval aviation and military administrative branch of the Pakistan Navy. The air arm is tasked with providing configuration of all naval aviation aircraft and is responsible for conducting the land-based strike capability, fleet air defense, evacuation and extraction, search and rescue, maritime reconnaissance, and anti-submarine warfare. The Commander Naval Aviation (COMNAV) command is usually held by a one-star ranking officer at Commodore rank who directs the field operations of the naval aviation. History Establishment After the second war with India in 1965, the concept of establishing the navy-based aviation service was conceived by the Pakistan Navy who forwarded the idea to the Government of Pakistan as part of the war strategy to sustain the purely defence of nation's maritime interests. The Navy had been long aware of the usefulness and tactical advantages of the air-wing after witn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pakistan Naval Air Arm Insignia
Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the second-largest Muslim population as of 2023. Islamabad is the nation's capital, while Karachi is its largest city and financial centre. Pakistan is the 33rd-largest country by area. Bounded by the Arabian Sea on the south, the Gulf of Oman on the southwest, and the Sir Creek on the southeast, it shares land borders with India to the east; Afghanistan to the west; Iran to the southwest; and China to the northeast. It shares a maritime border with Oman in the Gulf of Oman, and is separated from Tajikistan in the northwest by Afghanistan's narrow Wakhan Corridor. Pakistan is the site of several ancient cultures, including the 8,500-year-old Neolithic site of Mehrgarh in Balochistan, the Indus Valley Civilisation of the Bronze Age, and the ancient Gandhara civilisation. The regions that compose the moder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PNS Siddique
Pakistan Naval Station Siddique, known as PNS Siddique () formerly known as Naval Air Station, Turbat, is a naval air station and a military airport located in Turbat, Turbat city of Makran, Balochistan. It is one of four active Pakistan Naval Air Arm, Naval Air Arm bases (others are PNS Mehran, PNS Makran, PNS Ahsan, Naval Air Station Ormara) and currently the second largest naval air station after PNS Mehran. History Turbat, a small town with a population of less than 200,000, boasts an international airport (IATA code: TUK) offering flights to Muscat, Sharjah, Karachi, Gwadar, and Dalbandin, Dalbandian. Situated approximately 90 km NNW of Pasni (city), Pasni and 117 km NE of Gwadar, Turbat enjoys road connections to Panjgur District, Panjgur, Kalat, Balochistan, Kalat, Pasni (city), Pasni, and Karachi, but lacks rail infrastructure. On 3 September 2014, Pakistan's Naval Chief Admiral Asif Sandila, Mohammad Asif Sandila commissioned PNS Siddique, a new naval air ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pakistan Air Force
The Pakistan Air Force (PAF) (; ) is the aerial warfare branch of the Pakistan Armed Forces, tasked primarily with the aerial defence of Pakistan, with a secondary role of providing air support to the Pakistan Army and Pakistan Navy when required, and a tertiary role of providing strategic airlift capability to Pakistan. , per the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the PAF has more than 70,000 active-duty personnel. PAF is the largest Air Force of the Muslim world in terms of aircraft fleet. Its primary mandate and mission is "to provide, in synergy with other inter-services, the most efficient, assured and cost effective aerial defence of Pakistan." Since its establishment in 1947, the PAF has been involved in various combat operations, providing aerial support to the operations and relief efforts of the Pakistani military. Under Article 243, the Constitution of Pakistan appoints the president of Pakistan as the civilian commander-in-chief of the Pakistan Arme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XII Corps (Pakistan)
The XII Corps is a field corps of the Pakistan Army currently headquartered in Quetta, Balochistan in Pakistan. 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. History Formations and war service The Afghan and Iranian immigration to Pakistan and the Afghan Army's military raids in Chaman prompted the Army GHQ to form and raise the military formations to guard its western borders in 1984. The XII Corps was raised with its HQ in Quetta Cantonment as Lt-Gen. K.K. Afridi becoming its first commander in 1985. Its military engagement has been limited to the Balochistan conflict, which it mainly tackles through the Frontier Corps (paramilitary) and local police department. Syed Zakir Ali Zaidi served as the corps commander in 1987 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XI Corps (Pakistan)
The XI Corps is a field corps of the Pakistan Army, headquartered in Peshawar, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan. It has the area of responsibility and to protect the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa region, which has seen active military actions in the continuous Afghan conflict since its establishment in 1975. Overview Formation and war service As part of the major reorganization of the Pakistani military in 1974, the XI Corps was one of three corps that were formed to strengthened the national defenses to protect the north–south links from the incursions and secret raids coming from the Afghan National Army. It was followed by V Corps stationed in South, having headquartered in Peshawar Cantonment with Lt-Gen. Majeed Malik becoming its first commander in 1975. The XI Corps structure is based on 7th Inf. Div. and the 9th Inf. Div. with the armored, engineering, and signal brigades and elements of the Frontier Corps being its part. Similar to the X Corps, the XI Corps has an area of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pakistan Armed Forces
The Pakistan Armed Forces (; ) are the military forces of Pakistan. It is the world's sixth-largest military measured by active military personnel and consists of three uniformed services—the Army, Navy, and the Air Force, which are backed by several paramilitary forces such as the National Guard and the Civil Armed Forces. A critical component to the armed forces' structure is the Strategic Plans Division Force, which is responsible for the maintenance and safeguarding of Pakistan's tactical and strategic nuclear weapons stockpile and assets. The president of Pakistan is the commander-in-chief of the Pakistan Armed Forces and the chain of command is organized under the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (JCSC) alongside the respective chiefs of staff of the Army, Navy, and Air Force. All branches are systemically coordinated during joint operations and missions under the Joint Staff Headquarters (JSHQ). Since the 1963 Sino-Pakistan Agreement, the P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Majeed Brigade
Majeed Brigade ( Balochi: romanized: ''Majed Bereyagapyede'', ), also spelt Majid Brigade, is a special forces unit of the Balochistan Liberation Army. It is tasked with carrying out high-stakes and unconventional operations against Pakistani security forces. History The group was established in 2010 and named after Majeed Langove Senior aka Abdul Majeed Baloch, a Baloch militant who attempted to assassinate the prime minister at the time, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto on August 2, 1974, when he was at a public rally in Quetta as Majeed Senior sat atop of a tree with a grenade before accidentally committing suicide,and Majeed Junior another Baloch militant who was the younger brother of Senior who was killed by members of the Pakistan army on March 17, 2010, in a housing complex in Quetta. Since 2018 to October 2024, Majeed Brigade has committed 12 suicide suicide attacks on behalf of the Balochistan Liberation Army against both the Pakistan Army and Pakistani police. The first suicid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hafiz Gul Bahadur Group
Hafiz Gul Bahadur group (Urdu language, Urdu: حافظ گل بہادر گروپ) or HGB is a faction of the Pakistani Taliban (TTP) based in North Waziristan District, North Waziristan and surrounding districts of the former Federally Administered Tribal Areas, FATA region in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The group is led by tribal leader Hafiz Gul Bahadur, who is affiliated with the Taliban, Afghan Taliban and the Haqqani network, Haqqani Network. Though the group had previously directed most of its attacks against the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Afghan government and NATO forces during the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021), war in Afghanistan, it has since targeted the Pakistani government after the Fall of Kabul (2021), fall of Kabul in 2021. Militants affiliated with HGB have been linked to several high-profile attacks on Pakistani security forces in the Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, ongoing insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. HGB traces its roots from the tribal follower ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
