Before the dissolution of British India in 1947 , the location had initially been used as the premises of a PT and Mountaineering School of the British Indian Army , on the site of an old POW Camp for prisoners from the Boer War , and later it became the premises of the Royal Indian Army Service Corps .
Before Partition of British India and the Independence of Pakistan in 1947 , the location had been used as the PT and Mountaineering School of the British Indian Army , on the site of an old POW Camp for prisoners from the Boer War . Later it became the premises of the Royal Indian Army Service Corps ( RIASC ) .