20th Lancers The 20th Lancers is an armoured regiment of the Pakistan Army . It was formed in 1922 by the amalgamation of the 14th Murray ' s Jat Lancers and the 15th Lancers ( Cureton ' s Multanis ) . 14th Murray ' s Jat Lancers . The 14th Murray ' s Jat Lancers was raised at Aligarh as the Jat Horse Yeomanry in 1857 during the Indian Mutiny by Captain J I Murray . It was composed entirely of Hindu Jat s . The regiment served as part of the Bhutan Field Force during the Bhutan War of 1864 - 65 and in the Second Afghan War of 1878 - 80 . During the First World War , the regiment served in Mesopotamia . 15th Lancers ( Cureton ' s Multanis ) . The 15th Lancers ( Cureton ' s Multanis ) was formed at Lahore in 1858 by Captain C Cureton from six risallahs of Multani Pathans originally raised in 1857 by Ghulam Hasan Khan as The Multani Regiment of Cavalry . The first native commandant Nawab Ghulam Hassan Khan also served as the British Political Agent to Afghanistan . The regiment was one of the class regiments , comprising 100 % Muslims of Multani Pathans . The regiment saw service in the Second Afghan War of 1878 - 80 and in France and Persia during the First World War . After the First World War , the number of Indian cavalry regiments was reduced from thirty - nine to twenty - one . However , instead of disbanding the surplus units , it was decided to amalgamate them in pairs . This resulted in renumbering and renaming of the entire cavalry line . The 14th Murray ' s Jat Lancers and 15th Lancers ( Cureton ' s Multanis ) were amalgamated at Sialkot on 21 September 1920 to form 20th Lancers . The new class composition of the regiment was one squadron each of Punjabi Muslims , Sikhs and Hindu Jats . The uniform of 20th Lancers was dark blue with scarlet facings . The badge consisted of crossed silver lances bearing pennons with a crown at the intersection above " XX " and a scroll below . In 1937 , 20th Lancers became the training regiment of 3rd Indian Cavalry Group at Lucknow . It was converted into a training centre in 1940 . Reformation . On 20 June 1956 , 20th Lancers was re - raised by Pakistan Army as a Reconnaissance Regiment of Pakistan Armoured Corps and equipped with M24 Chaffee light tanks . The same year , the Indian Army raised an armoured regiment also named 20th Lancers , which claims to be the successor of the pre - independence 20th Lancers . The honour to raise the regiment for the Pakistan Armored Corps went to Major Syed Azmat Ali Bokhari ; Major Bokhari also commanded a squardon of the regiment during the 1965 war on the Sialkot front . At the time of re - raising in 1956 , the original badge was retained with the exception of the crown . During the Indo - Pakistani War of 1965 , the regiment served under 15 Division in the Sialkot Sector . The regiment took part in the defence of Sialkot Cantonment and Dallowali Railway Sataion . Numerous enemy tanks , and munitions were destroyed . During the Indo - Pakistani War of 1971 , 20th Lancers formed part of a delaying force in the Shakargarh Sector and held up the invading Indian divisions for two weeks . Sowar Muhammad Hussain was awarded a posthumous Nishan - i - Haider for outstanding gallantry . Affiliations & Alliances . The Punjab Regiment