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Army Aviation Started its journey as Number 1 Air Observation post (OP) Flight, Royal Pakistan Air Force (RPAF) in 1947 with four fabric covered Auster aircraft. These were left at Lahore Airport as Pakistan's share by the British 659 Air OP Squadron. Pakistan Army did not have any pilot or technician to handle these machines, as such help was sought from the RPAF. Late fifties saw the induction of L-19 aircraft while OH-13 helicopters arrived...

Khyber Rifles is the oldest corps among the fourteen corps which comprises the Frontier Corps Khyber Pakhtunkhwa or Militia as it is lovingly known among the tribes and people of Pakistan. Although the very idea of tribal army is as old as the idea of civilisation, however, nowhere else in the world, the Militia is as conceptualised, evolved and institutionalised as in Pakistan. Frontier Corps is the last of such Militia Corps in the world whi...

Tochi Scouts were raised as Levies in 1895, transformed into North Waziristan Militia in 1900. Tochi Scouts history is in fact the cultural, political, social and military history of North Waziristan itself.

Chitral' with its distinctive culture, norms and social matrix has no parallels. Diverse religious values with apt absorption, hospitality and simplicity are hallmarks of this soil. Same parameters on consolidation, form onerous and honourable 'Chitral Scouts'. History of Chitral has correlation, attribution and an inimitable binding relation with the Scouts' history. The outfit, from a modest beginning has come a long way, making each day mom...

British Army's Quest for flying in the 1930s was spearheaded by the Royal Airforce Gunnery Officers and opposed by the Royal Air Force on tactical grounds. After a prolonged paper battle the Air Observation Post Squadrons were finally raised in 1941. Were they really required. "A peep into the British Military Culture ... the conflict between Flyer and Gunner .... History of Pakistan and India's Army Flying.