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XI Corps (Pakistan)

Pakistan Army's field maneuver strike corps

Pakistan Army's field maneuver strike corps

FieldValue
unit_nameXI Corps
image11 Corps (Pakistan) logo.png
captionCorps Insignia
dates
country
branch
typeXXX Corps
roleManeuver/Deployment oversight.
size~45,000 approximately
(Though this may vary as units are rotated)
garrisonPeshawar Cantonment, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
garrison_labelHQ/Garrison
nicknamePeshawar Corps
colorsRed, white and black
colors_labelColors Identification
battlesAfghanistan conflict
anniversaries1975
decorationsMilitary Decorations of Pakistan Military
website
commander1Lt-Gen. Omer Ahmed Bokhari
commander1_labelCommander
notable_commandersGen. M. A. Beg
Lt-Gen. Masood Aslam
Lt-Gen. Fazle Haq
Lt-Gen. A. J. Aurakzai
Lt-Gen.Faiz Hameed
<!-- Insignia -->identification_symbol[[File:Flag of Pakistan's XI Corps.gif200pxbordercentre]]
identification_symbol_labelWar Flag
identification_symbol_4_label

(Though this may vary as units are rotated)

  • Spillover of Soviet - Afghan war in Pakistan
  • War on terror
  • War in Afghanistan
  • Taliban insurgency in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Civil war in Afghanistan
  • Afghan Civil War in 1989–92
  • Afghan Civil War in 1992–96
  • Afghan Civil War in 1996–01
  • Terrorism in Central Asia Afghanistan–Pakistan border conflicts
  • Pakistan–United States skirmishes
  • Skirmishes in 2017
  • Skirmishes in 2020-23
  • Afghanistan–Pakistan clashes (2024–present) Lt-Gen. Masood Aslam Lt-Gen. Fazle Haq Lt-Gen. A. J. Aurakzai Lt-Gen.Faiz Hameed The XI Corps is a field corps of the Pakistan Army, headquartered in Peshawar, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan.

It has the area of responsibility and to protect the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa region, which has seen active military actions in the continuous Afghan conflict since its establishment in 1975.

Overview

Formation and war service

As part of the major reorganization of the Pakistani military in 1974, the XI Corps was one of three corps that were formed to strengthened the national defenses to protect the north–south links from the incursions and secret raids coming from the Afghan National Army. It was followed by V Corps stationed in South, having headquartered in Peshawar Cantonment with Lt-Gen. Majeed Malik becoming its first commander in 1975.

The XI Corps structure is based on 7th Inf. Div. and the 9th Inf. Div. with the armored, engineering, and signal brigades and elements of the Frontier Corps being its part.

Similar to the X Corps, the XI Corps has an area of expertise in mountain warfare, and sometimes, it is included in the Northern Command— though it is the X Corps that leads the Northern Command overall.

Due to its deployment in sensitive border areas and mission parameters to prevent Afghan Army or insurgents' adventures in western fronts, the XI Corps has seen more military actions against the former Soviet Army, the former Afghan National Army and then the insurgents than any of Pakistan's field corps deployed in other fronts since the 1980.

Structure

Based on the known information to the public release, the order of battle (ORBAT) is subject to troops rotation based on a strategic calculations by the Pakistani war strategists.

Although, the XI Corps has permanent infantry divisions with engineering and signal brigades in its support, the XI Corps has received reinforcements from local law enforcement agencies, army's special forces, and the elements of the Frontier Corps during the heights of the military operations in the war on terror theater. The XI corps is based in the following areas:

Structure of XI CorpsCorpsCorps HQCorps CommanderAssigned UnitsFormation BadgeUnit HQ
XI CorpsPeshawarLt. Gen Omer Ahmed Bokhari
[[File:US-O9 insignia.svg52px]]7th Infantry DivisionMiranshah
9th Infantry DivisionKohat
Independent Armoured BrigadeNowshera
Independent Engineering BrigadeU/I Location
Independent Signal BrigadeU/I Location

List of Commanders XI Corps

NameStart of TermEnd of Term
Lieutenant-General
[[File:OF-8 PakistanArmy.svg30px]]
[[File:US-O9 insignia.svg55px]]
Majeed MalikApril 1975March 1976
Sawar KhanMarch 1976January 1978
Fazle HaqJanuary 1978March 1980
Chaudhri Abdul MajidMarch 1980April 1984
Muhammad IqbalApril 1984October 1985
Mirza Aslam BegOctober 1985January 1987
Ahmad Kamal KhanJanuary 1987February 1989
Rehm Dil BhattiFebruary 1989September 1990
Farrakh KhanSeptember 1990August 1991
Ayaz AhmadAugust 1991May 1994
Mumtaz GulMay 1994October 1996
Saeed uz ZafarOctober 1996March 2000
Imtiaz ShaheenMarch 2000April 2001
Ehsan ul HaqApril 2001October 2001
Ali Jan AurakzaiOctober 2001March 2004
Safdar HussainMarch 2004September 2005
Mohammad Hamid KhanSeptember 2005April 2007
Masood Aslam,April 2007April 2010
Asif Yasin MalikApril 2010December 2011
Khalid RabbaniDecember 2011December 2014
Hidayat Ur RehmanDecember 2014December 2016
Nazir Ahmed ButtDecember 2016October 2018
Shaheen Mazhar MehmoodOctober 2018November 2019
Nauman MehmoodNovember 2019November 2021
Faiz HameedNovember 20218 August 2022
Sardar Hassan Azhar Hayat Khan8 August 2022
Omer Ahmed Bokhari17 May 2024

References

References

  1. "Peshawar corps commander inspects highway construction in Mohmand".
  2. (2010). "Pakistan: Can the United States Secure an Insecure State?". Rand Corporation.
  3. "XI Corps".
  4. (2008). "Securing Pakistan's Tribal Belt". Council on Foreign Relations.
  5. (1988). "Pakistan Under Third Military President". Gujral Printers.
  6. (1 July 2016). "US-Pakistan Relations: Pakistan's Strategic Choices in the 1990s". Routledge.
  7. (1 July 2012). "Pakistan Army: Modernisation, Arms Procurement and Capacity Building". Vij Books India Pvt Ltd.
  8. (August 2013). "Pakistan Intelligence, Security Activities and Operations Handbook - Strategic Information and Developments". Lulu.com.
  9. (10 April 2020). "The Battle for Pakistan: The Bitter US Friendship and a Tough Neighbourhood". Rowman & Littlefield.
  10. (18 February 2014). "Pakistan's Counterterrorism Challenge". Georgetown University Press.
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