The Orakzai Scouts is a

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sized unit of the Frontier Corps KPK (south)'s South-Western Sector Headquarters. The unit guards the Afghanistan-Pakistan border in various areas and also supports law & order within

Orakzai District Orakzai District (, ) is a district in the Kohat Division of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Before 1973, it was part of FR Kohat. Up until 2018, it was an agency within the erstwhile Federally Administered Tribal Areas. However, w ...

History

The regiment was raised in 1972. The Scouts have been involved in anti-drug smuggling operations. In 2011-2012, the unit received a number of drug testing kits, through a United Nations program, to assist in their work against drug smuggling. One initiative in August 2021 saw the Scouts 235 Wing organise training to help farmers find alternatives to poppy cultivation such as mushroom farming. The regiment has been involved in combatting the

insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa The insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, also known as the War in North-West Pakistan or Pakistan's war on terror, is an ongoing armed conflict involving Pakistan and Islamist militant groups such as the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Jundal ...

. Shortly after the start of Operation Khyber by the Pakistani military, eight soldiers were killed in November 2014, when militants attacked a check post. Twenty militants were killed in an immediate counterattack by the regiment. In July 2019 members of the regiment helped rescue up to 47 injured people and retrieved the bodies of 8 children, after they became trapped in a collapsed house following a rainstorm. The regiment has also engaged in local culture recently. In partnership with provincial and local government bodies in March 2022, it organised a two-day local sports festival in Kalaya including a

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competition. The Commandant attended a motoring event in December 2022.

Structure

The unit is composed of a headquarters wing with six battalion-sized maneuver wings and a

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group. It had a 2020/21 budget of * Headquarters Wing * 231 Wing * 232 Wing * 233 Wing * 234 Wing * 235 Wing * 236 Wing * Special Operation Group

References

{{Frontier Corps Regiments of the Frontier Corps Orakzai District Frontier Corps Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (North)