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Tahira Qazi - Principal of APS&C for Boys Peshawar from 2006 to 2014, and associated with APSACS since 1994, she was killed along with 140+ others by the Taliban while rescuing her school children, in the Peshawar School Attack, in 2014 on 16 December.
Since their inception, APSs have witnessed significant growth, with a student population of around 20,000 in 1987 expanding to a mammoth system with a current student strength of approximately 2.3 lakh and 8,500 teaching staff. On average, 5,000 students are added to the APS system every year. [1]
Army Welfare Trust (AWT), also known as Askari Group, is a Pakistani conglomerate based in Rawalpindi. The Army Welfare Trust, along with Fauji Foundation, are run by ex-military personnel of the Pakistan Army.
In November 2011, a document from the Ministry of Defence disclosed the supposed participation of nearly a hundred military officers in dishonest activities. This disclosure came after the Public Accounts Committee’s announcement that three high-ranking military generals were accountable for the losses of Rs1.8 billion in the scam involving the National Logistics Cell.
The National Defence University (NDU), formerly introduced as Army War Course (1963–70), [a] the National Defence College (1970–2007), is the military university of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan focused on military education and training for the armed forces, including Pakistan military forces and two hundred foreign participants. [1]
The operational responsibility of the special operations conducted by the Army Special Service Group, nonetheless, falls under the command of the Army Strategic Forces Command (ASFC) operating from the Army GHQ in Rawalpindi, along with the Army Rangers and Strategic Plans Division Force–the CBRN defense team.
In 1957, it was relocated to Rawalpindi under plans to establish a medical complex in the city. The college was renamed as Armed Forces Medical College (AFM College) in September 1960 and finally assumed its current name in 1997. AFPGMI was affiliated with the Quaid-i-Azam University as the degree awarding university since 1967.
Military College of Signals. The Military College of Signals (MCS) is located in the suburbs of the Rawalpindi Cantonment, near the close proximity of the Chaklala Cantonment where the JS HQ is currently based in. [2] The college is approximately 3 km (1.9 mi) from the Rawalpindi Railway Station with the nearby shopping center which is about 2 km (1.2 mi) [2]