Country Pakistan Type Army Corps | Branch Pakistan Army | |
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Active 10 October 1999 - Present Role Combined arms formation
Air Defence Warfare Size 10,000 approximately (vary as troops are rotated) | ||
The Pakistan Army Air Defence Command ,)Urdu: ﺁرمى أير ڈفينص کمانڈ; Army Air Defence Command, abbreviated as AADC) (not to be mixed with Pakistan Army Air Defence Corps which is an Administrative Corps), is an active military combatant corps of the Pakistan Army and a major combative formation tasked with air defences of strategic assets of Pakistan from foreign Aerial threats. Army Air Defence Command was formed and headquartered at the Chaklala Army Cantonment in Rawalpindi, Punjab Province of Pakistan. following military exercises where Pakistan's military learned of its weakness in providing air cover over a moving battlefield. Air Defence Command consists of a total of five military divisions spread across two geographic districts; one tasked with air defence of the northern region of Pakistan headquartered in Lahore and the other with the southern region commanded from Quetta.
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List of commanders
- Maj Gen Agha Masood Hassan, October 1987 - October 1991
- Lt Gen Nazar Hussain, October 1991 – January 1993
- Lt Gen Amjad Shuaib, March 1996 – April 1998
- Lt Gen Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah, April 1998 – August 2000
- Lt Gen Khateer Hasan Khan, August 2000 – May 2005
- Lt Gen Tahir Mahmud Qazi, May 2005 – October 2006
- Lt Gen Muhammad Ashraf Saleem, October 2006 – April 2010
- Lt Gen Syed Muhammad Owais, April 2010 – April 2012
- Lt Gen Zamir Ul Hassan Shah, April 2012 – December 2013
- Lt Gen Muhammad Zahid Latif Mirza, December 2013 – present