Azad Kashmir Regular Force

Azad Kashmir Regular Force
Active1947–1972[1]
Allegiance Azad Kashmir
 Pakistan
TypeInfantry
Size35 Battalion sized regiments [2]
HeadquartersMuzaffarabad, Azad Kashmir, Pakistan
Motto(s)Arabic: ٱللَّٰهُ أَكْبَرُ
"God is the Greatest"
Engagements
Commanders
Notable
commanders
Lt. Gen. Akhtar Hussain Malik
Maj. Malik M. K. Awan
Maj. Muhammad Din

The Azad Kashmir Regular Force (AKRF), formerly known as the Kashmir Liberation Forces(KLF),[3] were the irregular forces of Azad Kashmir until 1948. They then were taken over by the government of Pakistan and converted into a regular force.[4][5] In this form, the unit became part of the country's paramilitary forces, operating out of the nominally self-governing territory of Azad Jammu and Kashmir. The AKRF was altered from a functioning paramilitary force and merged into the Pakistan Army as an infantry regiment following the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.[6]

A majority of the Pakistani troops who were deployed to infiltrate the Indian-administered state of Jammu and Kashmir during Operation Gibraltar in August 1965 were in service with the AKRF. Its failure led to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.[a]

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  2. ^ Das Gupta, Jyoti Bhusan (2012) [first published 1968], Jammu and Kashmir, Springer, ISBN 978-94-011-9231-6
  3. ^ Mirza, The Withering Chinar (1991), p. 20: "By the end of December 1947, the Planning Cell of Gujrat was moved to DAV College building at Rawalpindi, where it was reorganized as Headquarters Kashmir Liberation Forces Rawalpindi."
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  6. ^ Hussain, Ausaf (26 October 2012). "Renaming Frontier Force Regiment". Pakistan Today.


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