Military of Pakistan

Pakistan Armed Forces پاک مسلح افواج
Emblem
Founded	1947
Service branches	Pakistan Army Pakistan Navy Pakistan Air Force
Headquarters	Joint Staff Headquarters, Rawalpindi
Leadership
Commander-in-Chief	President Mamnoon Hussain
Minister of Defence	Khawaja Asif
Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee	General Rashad Mahmood Pakistan Army
Manpower
Military age	16–49 years old
Conscription	None
Active personnel	643,800 (ranked 6th)
Reserve personnel	513,000
Expenditures
Budget	$7.6 billion (2015–16) (ranked 25th)
Percent of GDP	3.5% (2015)
Industry
Domestic suppliers	Air Weapons Complex Heavy Industries Taxila Integrated Defence Systems Global Industrial Defence Solutions Defence Science and Technology Organization Karachi Shipyard and Engineering Works Kahuta Research Laboratories National Development Complex Pakistan Aeronautical Complex Pakistan Ordnance Factories SATUMA Metallurgical Laboratories Integrated Dynamics Marine Systems Limited
Foreign suppliers	Brazil China France Russia Turkey Jordan United States United Kingdom
Related articles
History	Military history of Pakistan UN peacekeeping missions Wars Involving Pakistan
Ranks	Awards and decorations of the Pakistan Armed Forces

The Pakistan Armed Forces (Urdu: پاک مُسَلّح افواج‎, Musallah Afwaj-e-Pakistan) are the military forces of Pakistan. They are the sixth largest in the world in terms of active military personnel and the largest among Muslim countries. The armed forces comprise three main service branches – Army, Navy, and Air Force – together with a number of paramilitary forces and the Strategic Plans Division Force.Chain of command of the military is organized under the Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (JCSC) alongside chiefs of staff of the army, navy, and air force. All of the branches work together during operations and joint missions under the Joint Staff Headquarters (JS HQ).

Since the 1963 Sino-Pakistan Agreement, the military has had close military relations with China, working jointly to develop the JF-17, the K-8, and other weapons systems. As of 2013,^[update] China was the second-largest foreign supplier of military equipment to Pakistan. Both nations also cooperate on development of nuclear and space technology programs. Their armies have a schedule for organizing joint military exercises. The military also maintains close relations with the United States, which gave Pakistan major non-NATO ally status in 2004. Pakistan gets the bulk of its military equipment from local domestic suppliers, China, and the United States.