Civil Armed Forces

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Civil Armed Forces
Service branches	Punjab Rangers Sindh Rangers Frontier Corps Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (North) Frontier Corps Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (South) Frontier Corps Balochistan (North) Frontier Corps Balochistan (South) Frontier Constabulary Pakistan Coast Guards Gilgit-Baltistan Scouts
Headquarters	Ministry of Interior, Islamabad
Leadership
Commander-in-Chief	President Asif Ali Zardari
Prime Minister	Shehbaz Sharif
Minister of Interior	Mohsin Raza Naqvi
Personnel
Active personnel	291,000 [1]
Related articles
History	Military history of Pakistan Wars Involving Pakistan
Ranks	Army ranks and insignia Naval ranks and insignia Air Force ranks and insignia

The Civil Armed Forces (CAF) ^[2] are a group of nine paramilitary, uniformed organisations, separate and distinct from the regular "military" Pakistan Armed Forces. They are responsible for maintaining internal security, helping law enforcement agencies, border control, counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism, riot control, and anti-smuggling under the Ministry of Interior. They frequently operate alongside the Pakistani military in response to natural disasters. During times of war they can have their command transferred to the Ministry of Defence, and effectively combined to form a reserve force for the Pakistani military.