MILITARY HISTORY OF PAKISTAN.

Articl:Brith of the modern Military.

(Further in information History of the pakistan Air Force)  

 On June 3 1947 the British Goverment annoued its plan to divide British India and Pakistan and the subsequent transfer of power to the two countries Resulted in independence of pakistan This divison of the Britsh indian Army occured on june 30,1947 in which pakistan received six armoed eight artilleg and eight infantry regiments compared to the forty armored forty artillery and twenty one infantry regiments that went to india.At the divison conucli wich was chaired by rear admiral lord mounbatleen of burma the viceroy of In

and was composed of the leaders of  the muslim leagle and the indian nation Pakistan was forced to accepta smaller share of the armed forces as most of the military assets such as weapons depots military bases etc. Were located insde the new union of india while those that were in the new dominion of pakistan were india and pakistan had operation control over their armed forces general sir frank messery was oppend as the first army commando in cheif on the paksitan amry general messery was succeded in post in febuary 1948 by General sir dougls Gracey who served until January 1951 The Pakistan armed forces intially numbered around 150,000 men many scattered around various bases in india and needing to trans ferred to pakistan by train. The indiependencecreated large scale communal violence in the india in total around 7 million muslim migrated to the estimated requirement of 4000 officers of pakistan and 5 million sikhs and hindus to india wich over a millon people dying in pakistani armed forces only 2,300 actually available. The neutral British officers were asked to fill in the gap and nearly 500 valunteered as well as many polish and hungarian officers to run the medical cops.By october 1947 pakistani had rasid four divions in west pakistan and one division in great pakistan with and one division strength of ten infantry brigades

with thirteen tanks many birgads and battelts with in these divisons were below half strength but pakistani personael countinned to arrive from all over india the middle east and north Africa and from south east asia mountbatten and field marshal sir claud aclchinleck the last commander in chief india had made it clear to pakistan that in case of war with india on other member of the commonwealth would come to pakistan help.