Pakistan Army Corps of Signals
| Pakistan Army Corps of Signals | |
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| Size | 45,000 (vary, as troops are rotated) |
| Headquarters/Garrison | Generals Combatant Headquarter (GHQ) |
| Nickname(s) | Sigs - Kabutars |
| Patron | Colonel Commandant Major General retired S.A. Bilal |
| Motto(s) | Tez-o-Yaqini Speed and Reliability |
| Color Identifications | Light blue, dark blue and green |
| Engagements |
Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 Indo-Pakistani War of 1999 War in North-West Pakistan UN East-Timor Missions Bosnian War Pakistan war in Afghanistan |
| Commanders | |
| First SO-in-C |
MGen Obedur Rehman Signal Officer-in-Chief (SO-in-C) |
| Current SO-in-C |
MGen Sohail Abbas Zaidi Signal Officer-in-Chief (SO-in-C) |
| Notable commanders |
LGen Naseem Rana |
MGen Sohail Abbas Zaidi
LGen Naseem Rana
MGen R. "Bill" Cawthome
The Pakistan Army Corps of Signals (Urdu: ﺁرمى سيگنل كور; Army Signal Core, is an active combatant military administrative staff corps and a major intelligence and science and technology command of Pakistan Army. The corps core objectives includes the research and development, tests, and manage the military communications and information systems support for the command and control of combined arms forces.
Initially part of Indian Army Corps of Signals which was established by Royal Engineers in 1911, its members and officers closely allied itself with Royal Corps of Signals, actively participated shoulder-to-shoulder in World War II, at a time when Germany invaded Great Britain. It came to existence on 14 August 1947, when Indian Army Corps of Signals was divided into two parts by the British Government, with one part remaining in India while other units formed what is now known as Corps of Signals in Pakistan. It was the brain-child of British Army's intelligence officer Major-General R. Cawthome who also founded and established the premier ISI in 1948. The Corps was supplemented with Royal Corps of Signals officers to assist into building the Corps to working strength. As soon as the Pakistan Army's signal officer were trained, the officer quickly replaced the British signal officers and closely allied the Corps with U.S. Army Signal Corps where the U.S. Signal Corps furthered privded advanced military training to Corps of Signals.
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