Army Strategic Forces Command (Pakistan)

Army Strategic Forces Command (Pakistan)
Badge of Army Strategic Forces Command, Rawalpindi
Active2000; 24 years ago (2000)
Country Pakistan
Branch Pakistan Army
TypeCommand and control (C2)
RoleStrategic deterrence
Ground-based First Strike
Size ☓☓☓ Corps 
(Though, it is vary due to troops rotations based on strategic calculus)
HeadquartersJoint Staff HQ in Chaklala, Punjab, Pakistan
Colors IdentificationRed and White
  
Commanders
CommanderLt-Gen. Shahbaz Khan
Chief of StaffBrig. Amer Riaz

The Pakistan Army Strategic Forces Command (Reporting name: ASFC) is a strategic and missile formation of the Pakistan Army.: 338 [1] Headquartered at the Joint Staff HQ in Chaklala near Rawalpindi,: 388 [1] the strategic command controls the land-based ballistics and cruise missile systems—both nuclear and conventional.: 240 [1]

Its organizational structure is model based on the conventional corps with its operations similar to Regiment of Artillery, and responsible only for the ground-based strategic nuclear deterrence.[2]

  1. ^ a b c Khan, Feroz (7 November 2012). Eating Grass: The Making of the Pakistani Bomb. Stanford, CA, USA: Stanford University Press. p. 500. ISBN 978-0-8047-8480-1. Retrieved 29 October 2023.
  2. ^ Mujadid, Ghulam. "The Next Decade of Nuclear Unlearning: Command and Control and Management of Pakistan's Nuclear Weapons". www.nps.edu. Naval Post Graduate School. Retrieved 29 October 2023.