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The Pakistan Armed Forces (Urdu: پاکستان مسلح ... In 2024, the Pakistan Armed Forces had approximately 660,000 active personnel, ...
The 2024 Afghanistan–Pakistan skirmishes are a series of ongoing armed clashes consisting of cross-border airstrikes and exchanges of gunfire between Afghanistan and Pakistan. The conflict also separately includes the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), and Pakistani Taliban .
Pakistan's foreign Ministry has also not directly commented on the strikes but its foreign ministry said the armed forces conducted “operations in border areas to protect the people of Pakistan from terrorist groups”.The Pakistan's foreign Ministry's spokesperson further added, “These counterterrorism operations are carefully selected and ...
4 November – The National Assembly votes in favour of extending the tenures of heads of the Pakistan Armed Forces and its service branches from three to five years. [160] 5 November – Two Chinese nationals are injured in a shooting by a security guard at a textile factory in Karachi. [161] 6 November –
On 18 March 2024, in response to the attack from Afghanistan, Pakistan Air Force carried out two intelligence based airstrikes on Afghanistan's eastern border provinces of Khost and Paktika. The Afghan government claim that Pakistan killed five women and three children.
On 15 July 2024, before dawn, the Bannu Cantonment in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, was targeted by ten militants from the Hafiz Gul Bahadur group of the Pakistani Taliban, based in Afghanistan. The militants attempted to breach the cantonment's defenses but were repelled by the Pakistan Armed Forces. In retaliation, the militants detonated a ...
The transparency of Pakistan's military expenditure has been criticized. Major acquisitions by the armed forces, expenditure on the Public Sector Development Program (PSDP), expenditure on the nuclear program and para-military forces, payment of military pensions, and a few other military expenditures do not appear in the budget.
[4]: 1–2 According to statistics provided by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in 2024, the Pakistan Army has approximately 560,000 active duty personnel, supported by the Pakistan Army Reserve, the National Guard and the Civil Armed Forces. [5] Pakistan Army is the sixth-largest army in the world and the largest in the ...