Thursday, August 13, 2020

30 Outstanding Images of Pakistan Army Pre-After Partition

2nd Battalion Band in Cherat, North West Frontier, India.Dated 1913
17th Cavlary and 37th Lancers on amalgamation as 15th Lancers. at Lahore
Air Marshal Asghar Khan, with then Wing Commander Władysław Józef Marian Turowicz (Second from right) reviews of a unit of the Pakistan Air Force.
Ayub Khan at HMPS Karsaz Karachi in 1954.
Aziz Bhatti Shaheed (N.H) in his youth.
Bagpipe Band's goat
Band practice at Khanspur (near Ayubia)
Brig Sher Khan as Director of Military Operations, Pakistan Army, distributing arms to tribal fighters during the Kashmir conflict.
British and Indian officers of the 5th Regiment of Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force. dated 1880
Elephant pulling a field gun.
Former Armey Cheif, Gen (R) Raheel Sharif, during his PMA days as a cadet. (L)
Gen, Hameed Gul as Brigadier


General Auchinleck, C-in-C of the British Indian Army, at the Kakul Academy 1940
General Muhammad Ayub Khan and other army officials at a briefing at GHQ, Rawalpindi on the Fauji Foundation. Note the simplicity of those days.
General Muhammad Musa, in British uniform as the Second Lieutenant.
General Yahya Khan with Lt. General Abdul Hamid Khan (L), and Air Commodore (later Air Marshal) Abdul Rahim Khan in East Pakistan.
Hero Of 1965 Pak-India War, Maj. Muhammad Fakhr-e-Alam Khan Shaheed, 6th Of September, 1965, At Sialkot Near Pasrur, Barha Pind Operation, From 13 Lancers, Armoured Corps, village Mathra.
Kh. Nazim-ud-Din, Governor General of Pakistan awarding the Sword of Honor to K.K. Afridi (latter on, General), at the passing out parade of 4th PMA Long Course at PMA Kakul.
Men of the 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry start their epic 300 mile journey from Ambala to Sialkot.
One of the civilian ambulance drivers of the 1st Battalion, Karachi.
Pakistan Defence Delegation led by then Secretary-Defence, Maj Gen Sikander Mirza Visit to the USA.
Presentation of Colours to 2nd Battalion, 15th Punjab Regiment, by Mohammad Ali Jinnah.
Rare Childhood Photo of Major Raja Aziz Bhatti Shaheed (Nishan-e-Haider).
Rawalpindi Pakistan Infantrymen get workout with Boxing Gloves
Sowars of 4th Duke of Cambridge’s Own Hodson’s Horse demonstrate their skills during cavalry maneuvers. In 1938 the regiment was stationed at Loralai in Baluchistan. c-1038
The 5th Royal Gurkha Rifles in Waziristan during the Third Anglo-Afghan War.
The 38th Dogras and the (Frontier Force) 25th Cavalry parade through Lahore.
The Peshawar Hunt was formed by the Army in 1870 out of the regimental and private packs stationed around Peshawar on the North West Frontier. The pack marched to Kabul during the Second Afghan War (1878-80),
 Wing.Cmdr. Aizad Bakhsh Awan (First Muslim Pilot of the Sub-Continent, Commissioned from Cranwell, sitting) Ayub Bakhsh Awan (later I.G West Pakistan, standing).

 Gen. Musa Khan, (chief of Army Staff) with School girls.

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