# Pakistan Army Corps of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering

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The Pakistan Army Corps of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering is a military administrative and the engineering staff branch of the Pakistan Army.
The EME provides maintenance and inspections of wide range of Pakistan Army's mechanized and aviation assets and provides machinery of components besides supporting expertise in electrical works for the Pakistan Army. 70 EME, 53 EME and 55 EME one of being the best EME Battalions having the maximum number of resources and manpower.

## Overview

The Pakistan Army Corps of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering (EME) was formed as a separate maintenance arm into the Pakistan Army from the partition of the British Indian Army's Corps of EME— only twenty officers joining the arm.$^{:29–30}$ It was the British officers in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) that provided the support and training to raise the corps to help maintain the equipment of the Pakistan Army.$^{:41}$ Brigadier Vivian Edgar Beards was the first officer commanding of the EME when it was commissioned in the Pakistan Army as a corps on 20 October 1947.$^{:42}$
From its early years, the education on electrical and mechanical engineering was provided by the Loughborough University with a mutual agreement between the British Army and the Pakistan Army.$^{:44}$ In 1957, the Pakistan Army established the College of Electrical & Mechanical Engineering with support from the United States Army. Subsequently, many officers of the army went to universities in the United States to study electrical and mechanical engineering.$^{:49}$ The College of Electrical & Mechanical Engineering was later upgraded in 1969.
The Corps of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering did not restrict its support to the army but extended its support to air force and navy, though each branch established its own staff corps to maintain their arms within their units. In 1960, an airborne course was established in the EME, making it mandatory for its officers and personnel to complete the parachute course— the EME has the oldest active parachutist courses in the country. In the 1970s, the Corps of EME played a crucial role in support of the machining of components, PCB prints, and the engineering aspects of the Pakistan's nuclear weapons program.$^{:49:144}$$^{:142}$
Many of its officers were instrumental in establishing the Combat Development Directorate, which was the pursuant of the Strategic Plans Division, that advised the Army GHQ in matters of nuclear-based strategic deterrence.$^{:49:144}$
The Corps of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering is commanded the by its Director-General, usually at the active-duty two-star rank, Major-General, who works under the Chief of the General Staff at the GHQ (Pakistan).$^{:136–137}$

## Some Notable Units

* 3 Technical Training Battalion EME
* 4 Technical Training Battalion EME
* 10 Electrical & Mechanical Engineering Battalion
* 41 EME Battalion [CEME 37 Div]
* 42 EME Battalion
* 43 EME Battalion$^{:79}$
* 44 EME Battalion
* 47 EME Battalion
* 49 EME Battalion
* 50 EME Battalion
* 52 EME Battalion
* 53 EME Battalion [CEME 18 Div]
* 58 EME Battalion
* 59 EME Battalion
* 70 EME Battalion
* 90 EME Battalion$^{:68}$
* 91 EME Battalion [CEME 37 Div]
* 92 EME Battalion [CEME 35 Div "Behtreen Banway"]
* 94 EME Battalion
* 95 EME Battalion
* 118 EME Battalion
* 544 Heavy EME Battalion
* 546 EME Battalion
* 699 Aviation EME Battalion
* 1010 eme battalion
* 100 EME BATTALİON
* 1 EME battalion
* 766 EME battalion

## Director Generals EME

| Name | Start of Term | End of Term |
| Brig W. P. B. Ashton | 1948 | 1955 |
| Brig M. Mohamedi | 1955 | 1967 |
| Maj Gen K.M. Masud | 1967 | 1972 |
| Brig M. Karim Ullah | 1972 | 1976 |
| Maj Gen Syed Ali Nawab | 1976 | 1976 |
| MMaj Gen M. Jalal Ud Din | 1976 | 1978 |
| Maj Gen Syed Saeed Akhtar | 1978 | 1981 |
| Maj Gen Qazi Abid Hussain | 1981 | 1986 |
| Maj Gen S. Qamar-uz-Zaman | 1986 | 1988 |
| Brig Abdul Majid | 1988 | 1988 |
| Maj Gen Javed Anwer Hashmi | 1988 | 1993 |
| Maj Gen Munir Hassan Khalid | 1993 | 1995 |
| Maj Gen Mian Salim Uddin | 1995 | 1998 |
| Maj Gen Sikandar Hayat | 1998 | 2001 |
| Maj Gen Akber Saeed Awan | 2001 | 2002 |
| Maj Gen Fazl-i-Ilahi | 2002 | 2008 |
| Maj Gen Jamshed Riaz | 2008 | 2012 |
| Maj Gen Khalid Mahmood | 2012 | 2015 |
| Maj Gen Rehan Baqi | 2015 | 2018 |
| Maj Gen Hassan Akhtar | 2018 | 2021 |
| Maj Gen Ayub Ahsan Bhatti | 2021 | 2024 |
| Maj Gen Attique Ahmed | 2024 | Current |