Punjab Regiment (Pakistan)

Punjab Regiment
Active	1759–present
Country	British East India Company Rule (1759–1858)  British India (1858–1947)  Pakistan (1947–present)
Branch	Presidency Armies  British Indian Army  Pakistan Army
Type	Infantry
Size	63 battalions
Regimental centre	Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Colours[1]
Anniversaries	Defence Day: September 6
Engagements	See list: Under the British East India Company: Seven Years' War First Anglo−Mysore War Second Anglo−Mysore War Third Anglo−Mysore War Fourth Anglo−Mysore War Second Anglo−Maratha War Travancore Rebellion of 1808–1809 Anglo−Nepalese War Third Anglo−Maratha War First Anglo−Burmese War Coorg War of 1834 First Anglo−Afghan War First Opium War Indian Rebellion of 1857 Under the British Crown: Bhutan War 1867–1868 Expedition to Abyssinia Second Anglo−Afghan War 1882 Conquest of Egypt Chinese Boxer Rebellion Somaliland Campaign 1911 Chinese Revolution World War I Third Anglo−Afghan War World War II Post−Independence: First Indo−Pakistani War Second Indo−Pakistani War Bangladesh Liberation War Third Indo−Pakistani War Conflict in Siachen Fourth Indo−Pakistani War War in North−West Pakistan
Commanders
Colonel-in-Chief	General Khalid Shameem
Colonel Commandant	Lieutenant general Syed Adnan HI (M) (It is unclear about the actual colonel commandant of Punjab regiment)

The Punjab Regiment is an infantry regiment of the Pakistan Army. The regiment takes its name from the historic Punjab region, which is now divided into the Punjab province of Pakistan and the Indian states of Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh. It was raised in its current form in 1956, following the amalgamation of the 1st, 14th, 15th and 16th Punjab regiments that were inherited by the Dominion of Pakistan from the British Indian Army upon the Partition of India. Since then, the regiment has expanded in size to 63 battalions.

It is the oldest regiment in the Pakistan Army, tracing its lineage to as far back as 1751, during the reign of the Mughal Empire.^[2] The regiment's battalions have a distinguished record of military service, spanning the rise and decline of British colonial rule in South Asia, both World War I and World War II, as well as post-independence Pakistan.