Armed forces: Active army strength in 1994 was 520,000, with 300,000 reserve personnel navy, 22,000 personnel and 5,000 reserves in 1994 air force, 45,000 active personnel and 8,000 reserve personnel paramilitary forces including National Guard, Frontier Corps, Pakistan Rangers, MehraÍÍÍÍn Force, Coast Guard, and Maritime Security Agency, exceed 300,000.

Major Military Units: Army: organized in nine corps. Under corps headquarters, twenty-one divisions. Navy: organized in four commands, COMPAK--the fleet COMLOG--logistics COMFORNAV--naval installations in the north of Pakistan and COMKAR--naval headquarters at Karachi. Air Force: organized in eighteen squadrons to defend three air defense districts--north, central, and south.

Military Equipment: Army: Tank inventory mostly Chinese manufacture but includes some United States-made armored personnel carriers artillery pieces, motorized rocket launchers, mortars, air defense guns, TOW antitank guided weapons, surface-to-surface missiles, ship-to-surface missiles, and surface-to-air missile. Navy: submarines with United States Harpoon missiles destroyers, guided missile frigates, frigates, surface-to-air missiles, torpedo craft, minehunters, combat aircraft, and armed helicopters. Air Force: mainstay is F-16 fighter other fighters include Chinese J-6s and J-5s, French Mirages, also C-130 Hercules transportation planes.

Defense Budget: US$3.5 billion in FY 1994, which represented 26 percent of government spending and close to 9 percent of the gross national product.

Foreign Military Relations: Principal military tie with United States but relationship periodically strained. China, a steady source of military equipment, has joined Pakistan in cooperative ventures in weapons production. Security relationships also with Saudi Arabia, Persian Gulf states, Iran, and Turkey.

International Security Forces: Troops contributed to various international security initiatives, including the United States-led alliance in the Persian Gulf War and the United Nations peacekeeping efforts in Somalia and Bosnia. Pakistan has sent peacekeeping observers to Croatia, Iraq-Kuwait border zones, Liberia, Mozambique, and the Western Sahara.

Internal Security and Police: Internal security occasionally threatened by regional interests, particularly by sectarian violence in Sindh in early 1990s. Police often perceived as abusers of civil rights. Widespread violent crime and narcotics-related incidents potential threats to domestic security.

Data as of April 1994