title: Pakistan Armed Forces deployments
Pakistan Navy
Pakistan Air Force
Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology
Women in the Pakistan Armed Forces
Pakistan Armed Forces Eastern Command
Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee
Pakistan Armed Forces
Judge Advocate General Branch (Pakistan)
Saiful Azam
sentences: Pakistan Armed Forces deployments include all Pakistani military deployments that are stationed outside Pakistan and serving in other countries.
 The sixth largest military power in terms of active troops, Pakistan has an extensive history of overseas military presence, especially in the Middle East, where it has maintained military contingents, missions and battalions in several states.
 As part of its foreign policy efforts to expand its military relations and influence in the region, Pakistan signed defence protocols during the 1970s with several Arab countries including Saudi Arabia, Libya, Jordan, Iraq, Oman, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait, under which members of the armed forces of these countries were imparted professional training by Pakistani advisers and military trainers.
 Saudi Arabia signed a bilateral agreement with Pakistan on defense cooperation; during that time, there were 40,000 to 50,000 Pakistani military personnel serving abroad with the largest number of these, about 20,000, deployed in Saudi Arabia.
 By the 1980s, Pakistan maintained military missions in 22 countries, becoming the largest military manpower deployer in the Third World.
The Pakistan Navy (Urdu: ‎ ; "Pɑkistan Bahri'a" ) (reporting name: PN) is the naval warfare branch of the Pakistan Armed Forces, responsible for Pakistan's 1046 km of coastline along the Arabian Sea, and the defence of important civilian harbours and military bases.
 The Pakistan Navy came into the existence after the independence of Pakistan in 1947.
 The President of Pakistan serves as the Supreme Commander of the Navy under Article 243 (2) of the Constitution of Pakistan, and the Chief of Naval Staff heads the Navy.
 Navy Day is celebrated on 8 September in commemoration of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
The Pakistan Air Force (PAF) (Urdu: ‎ —"Pāk Fizāʾiyah" , , reporting name: 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 the Pakistan Navy.
 The PAF also has a tertiary role of providing strategic air transport and logistics capability to Pakistan.
 The PAF employs approximately 65,000 full-time personnel (including approximately 3,000 pilots) and currently operates 883 aircraft.
The Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology (Urdu: ‎ , or AFIC) also known as the National Institute of Heart Diseases or NIHD is a government and military cardiac hospital located in Rawalpindi Cantonment, Punjab, Pakistan.
 This 250-bed cardiac health care institute is a major institute and hospital in Pakistan.
 The hospital delivers heart disease and health care services to people of Pakistan Armed Forces and fellow citizens of Pakistan.
Women in the Pakistan Armed Forces are the female soldiers who serve in the Pakistan Armed Forces.
 Women have been taking part in Pakistani military since 1947 after the establishment of Pakistan.
 There are currently around 4,000 women who are serving in the Pakistan Armed Forces.
 In 2006, the first women fighter pilots batch joined the combat aerial mission command of PAF
The Eastern Military High Command of the Pakistan Armed Forces was a field-level military command headed by an appointed senior 3-star officer, who was designated the Unified Commander of the Eastern Military High Command.
 After the partition of India by Great Britain, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan was divided into two territories separated by 1000 mi (prior to the independence of Bangladesh in 1971).
 Most of the assets of the Pakistan armed forces were stationed in West Pakistan; the role of the Pakistan armed forces in East Pakistan was to hold out until Pakistan was defeated by India in the west (in case of war).
 The Pakistan armed forces created the Eastern Military High Command, with one unified commander of the Pakistan armed forces responsible for the command.
 The armed forces (particularly the Pakistan Army), had drawn up a plan to defend Dhaka by concentrating all their forces along the Dhaka Bowl (the area surrounded by the rivers Jamuna, Padma and Meghna).
The Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (Urdu: جوانٹ چيفس ﺁف اسٹاف كميٹى‎ ; JCSC), is an administrative body of senior high-ranking uniformed military leaders of the unified Pakistan Armed Forces who advises the civilian Government of Pakistan, National Security Council, Defence Minister, President and Prime minister of Pakistan on important military and non-military strategic matters.
 It is defined by statute, and consists of a Chairman, the military chiefs from Army, Navy and the Air Force: all four-star officers appointed by the President, on the advice of the Prime minister.
 The chairman is selected based on seniority and merit from the Chiefs of service of the three branches of the Pakistan Armed and Defense Services.
 Each service chief, outside of their Joint Chiefs of Staff obligations, performs their duty directly for the Ministry of Defence.
The Pakistan Armed Forces (Urdu: ‎ , "Musallah Afwaj-e-Pakistan") are the military forces of Pakistan.
 They are the sixth largest in the world in terms of active military personnel and the largest among Muslim countries.
 The armed forces comprise three main service branches – Army, Navy, and Air Force – together with a number of paramilitary forces and the Strategic Plans Division Force.
 Chain of command of the military is organized under the Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (JCSC) alongside chiefs of staff of the army, navy, and air force.
 All of the branches work together during operations and joint missions under the Joint Staff Headquarters (JS HQ).
The Judge Advocate General Branch of the Pakistan Armed Forces is composed of Pakistan's Military senior officers, lawyers and judges who provide legal services to the Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marines at all levels of command.
 JAG branch comes directly under the Adjudant-General Branch of the army.
 The Judge Advocate General's Legal Service includes judge advocates, warrant officers, paralegal noncommissioned officers and junior enlisted personnel, and civilian employees.
 In Pakistan, the Judge Advocate General can have the rank of Lieutenant-General, Major or Brigadier-General.
 The JAG is currently led by the combined Pakistan Armed Forces's senior-rank officers that includes the Vice Admirals of the Navy, Air Marshals of the Air Force, and the Lieutenant-Generals of the Army whose names are kept highly classified.
Saiful Azam (born 1941) is a retired Pakistani/Bangladeshi air force officer, who served as a fighter pilot with the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) (1960-1971) and the Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) (1971-1979).

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 The Pakistan Navy (Urdu: ‎ ; "Pɑkistan Bahri'a" ) (reporting name: PN) is the naval warfare branch of the Pakistan Armed Forces, responsible for Pakistan's 1046 km of coastline along the Arabian Sea, and the defence of important civilian harbours and military bases.
 The Pakistan Navy came into the existence after the independence of Pakistan in 1947.
 The President of Pakistan serves as the Supreme Commander of the Navy under Article 243 (2) of the Constitution of Pakistan, and the Chief of Naval Staff heads the Navy.
 Navy Day is celebrated on 8 September in commemoration of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. 

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 The Pakistan Air Force (PAF) (Urdu: ‎ —"Pāk Fizāʾiyah" , , reporting name: 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 the Pakistan Navy.
 The PAF also has a tertiary role of providing strategic air transport and logistics capability to Pakistan.
 The PAF employs approximately 65,000 full-time personnel (including approximately 3,000 pilots) and currently operates 883 aircraft. 

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 The Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology (Urdu: ‎ , or AFIC) also known as the National Institute of Heart Diseases or NIHD is a government and military cardiac hospital located in Rawalpindi Cantonment, Punjab, Pakistan.
 This 250-bed cardiac health care institute is a major institute and hospital in Pakistan.
 The hospital delivers heart disease and health care services to people of Pakistan Armed Forces and fellow citizens of Pakistan. 

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 Women in the Pakistan Armed Forces are the female soldiers who serve in the Pakistan Armed Forces.
 Women have been taking part in Pakistani military since 1947 after the establishment of Pakistan.
 There are currently around 4,000 women who are serving in the Pakistan Armed Forces.
 In 2006, the first women fighter pilots batch joined the combat aerial mission command of PAF 

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 The Eastern Military High Command of the Pakistan Armed Forces was a field-level military command headed by an appointed senior 3-star officer, who was designated the Unified Commander of the Eastern Military High Command.
 After the partition of India by Great Britain, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan was divided into two territories separated by 1000 mi (prior to the independence of Bangladesh in 1971).
 Most of the assets of the Pakistan armed forces were stationed in West Pakistan; the role of the Pakistan armed forces in East Pakistan was to hold out until Pakistan was defeated by India in the west (in case of war).
 The Pakistan armed forces created the Eastern Military High Command, with one unified commander of the Pakistan armed forces responsible for the command.
 The armed forces (particularly the Pakistan Army), had drawn up a plan to defend Dhaka by concentrating all their forces along the Dhaka Bowl (the area surrounded by the rivers Jamuna, Padma and Meghna). 

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 The Pakistan Armed Forces (Urdu: ‎ , "Musallah Afwaj-e-Pakistan") are the military forces of Pakistan.
 They are the sixth largest in the world in terms of active military personnel and the largest among Muslim countries.
 The armed forces comprise three main service branches – Army, Navy, and Air Force – together with a number of paramilitary forces and the Strategic Plans Division Force.
 Chain of command of the military is organized under the Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (JCSC) alongside chiefs of staff of the army, navy, and air force.
 All of the branches work together during operations and joint missions under the Joint Staff Headquarters (JS HQ). 

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 The Judge Advocate General Branch of the Pakistan Armed Forces is composed of Pakistan's Military senior officers, lawyers and judges who provide legal services to the Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marines at all levels of command.
 JAG branch comes directly under the Adjudant-General Branch of the army.
 The Judge Advocate General's Legal Service includes judge advocates, warrant officers, paralegal noncommissioned officers and junior enlisted personnel, and civilian employees.
 In Pakistan, the Judge Advocate General can have the rank of Lieutenant-General, Major or Brigadier-General.
 The JAG is currently led by the combined Pakistan Armed Forces's senior-rank officers that includes the Vice Admirals of the Navy, Air Marshals of the Air Force, and the Lieutenant-Generals of the Army whose names are kept highly classified. 

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 Saiful Azam (born 1941) is a retired Pakistani/Bangladeshi air force officer, who served as a fighter pilot with the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) (1960-1971) and the Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) (1971-1979). 

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Answer: Pakistan Air Force