Pakistan Armed Forces deployments include all Pakistani military deployments that are stationed outside Pakistan and serving in other countries. Pakistan has an extensive history of overseas military presence, especially in the Middle East, where it has maintained military contingents and active-duty battalions in several states. As part of its foreign policy efforts to expand its military relations and influence in the region, Pakistan signed military protocols during the 1970s with 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.[1] 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.[1] By the 1980s, Pakistan maintained military missions in 22 countries, becoming the largest military manpower deployer in the Third World.[1]
A large number of Pakistani military personnel continue to serve in training and advisory positions. The scope of these deployments comprises contingents and battalions of active-duty Pakistani military personnel located in these countries as part of an overseas military presence, including those serving in local defense forces and those involved in military missions and peacekeeping work.
See also edit
- United States military deployments
- Frontier_Force_Regiment#International_duty
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azim_Daudpota
- List_of_countries_with_overseas_military_bases#Pakistan
- Bahraini_uprising_(2011–present)#Use_of_mercenaries [1] [2] [3]
- [4] Khalid_ibn_al-Walid#In_popular_culture
- 50 years on: Memories of the 1973 Arab-Israeli Conflict
- Pakistan Armed Forces deployments in Saudi Arabia According to Khawaja Asif (Apr 2015), there are around 1,000 Pakistani troops deployed in Saudi Arabia. Spread out throughout the country; in some units, there are 2, in some there are 8 etc. Many are part of medical corps. Around 200-300 participated in a military exercise Samsam a group of 292) there; 1000; [5]; [6]; [7]; About 700 Pakistani troops are stationed in Saudi Arabia; [8]; [9]; As many as 11,000 to 15,000 Pakistani troops and advisers had been recruited
- "The scope for that investment was described by analyst Theodore Karaskik on these pages. He wrote that the models for the proposed pan-Arab military force assumed a 15 per cent Pakistani component even though they are not Arab." [10] [11] [12]
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References edit
- ^ a b c Pande, Aparna (2011). Explaining Pakistan's Foreign Policy: Escaping India. Taylor & Francis. pp. 153, 154, 155, 156. ISBN 9781136818943.
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- UAE, UAE Air Force
- A number of Pakistan army and air force personnel were deputed to several countries including Saudi Arabia, United. Arab Emirates..
- UAE
- UAE
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- Dhofar Rebellion
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