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XII Corps (Pakistan)
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The XII Corps is a field corps of the Pakistan Army currently headquartered in Quetta, Balochistan in Pakistan.[4]

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With reserves, paramilitary, and other military formations supporting the XII Corps, the corps has an area of responsibility of Balochistan and oversees its mission of responsibility to protect as an army's regional formation in Pakistan's security apparatus known as the Southern Command.:309–311[3]

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Formations and war service

The Afghan and Iranian immigration to Pakistan and the Afghan Army's military raids in Chaman prompted the Army GHQ to form and raise the military formations to guard its western borders in 1984.:64[5] The XII Corps was raised with its HQ in Quetta Cantonment as Lt-Gen. K.K. Afridi becoming its first commander in 1985.[4][6] Its military engagement has been limited to the Balochistan conflict, which it mainly tackles through the Frontier Corps (paramilitary) and local police department.[4][7]

Syed Zakir Ali Zaidi served as the corps commander in 1987-89. After handing over the corps to his successor he became president of the National Defence University, from 1 August 1989 to18 June 1990.[8]

Similar to the V Corps in Sindh, the XII Corps has an area of expertise in desert warfare, and oversees security operations together with the local law enforcement, mechanized divisions guarding the nation's desert and dune ranges, and paramilitary to ensure the national defenses of the Pakistan.:311[3]

Together with the air force units, naval bases, marines camps, paramilitaries, army reserves, and air forces ranges, the XII Corps forms and leads the major regional formation in Pakistan's security spectrum known as the Southern Command.[7]:309–311[3]

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Structure

The XII Corps has not seen military action against the Indian Army (east) nor the Afghan National Army (west) but tackled counterinsurgency time to time which led to the troop rotations based on the strategic calculations.[4] The XII Corps has receives reinforcement in its missions on war on terror and is based on the known information publicly available:

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List of Commanders XII Corps

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Rahat Naseem Ahmed Khan November 2023
Asif Ghafoor August 2022November 2023
Sarfraz Ali December 2020August 2022
Muhammad Waseem Ashraf September 2019December 2020
Asim Saleem Bajwa September 2017September 2019
Aamer RiazOctober 2015September 2017
Nasser Khan JanjuaSeptember 2013October 2015
Alam KhattakOctober 2011September 2013
Javed ZiaApril 2010October 2011
Khalid Shameem WynneApril 2007April 2010
Shahid HamidSeptember 2003October 2004
Abdul Qadir BalochOctober 2001September 2003
Mushtaq HussainOctober 1999October 2001
Tariq PervaizMay 1997October 1999
Saranjam Khan1995May 1997
Zia Ullah KhanJanuary 19931995
Abdul Waheed KakarAugust 1989January 1993
Syed Zakir Ali ZaidiMay 1987August 1989
Khushdil Khan Afridi 1985May 1987

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