The Pakistan Army Corps of Service is a military administrative and

combat service support The term combat service support (or CSS) is utilized by numerous military organizations throughout the world to describe entities that provide direct and indirect sustainment services to the groups that engage (or are potentially to be engaged) ...

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of the

Pakistan Army The Pakistan Army (, ), commonly known as the Pak Army (), is the Land warfare, land service branch and the largest component of the Pakistan Armed Forces. The president of Pakistan is the Commander-in-chief, supreme commander of the army. The ...

. Reporting from its headquarter in Nowshera Cantonment,

Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (; ; , ; abbr. KP or KPK), formerly known as the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), is a province of Pakistan. Located in the northwestern region of the country, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is the fourth largest province of Paki ...

in Pakistan, the service corps is one of the important military logistics branch in the Pakistani military, and is commanded by its director-general, Maj-Gen. Usman Haq as of 2023.Unlike other arms like infantry, armour, arty, eme, engineers and other supporting arms, ASC comes with branches which is responsible for feeding their troops

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The Army Service Corps is one of the largest military administrative corps that was commissioned into the Pakistan Army from the partition of the former

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's Service Corps in November 1947. Originally, the service corps was headquartered in

Chaklala cantonment Chaklala is a major suburban town of Rawalpindi in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It covers an area of (8,405 acres). The population of the town is 333,115 according to the 2023 census. Chaklala Cantonment is one of the three components of Raw ...

with

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Abdullah Jan as its commandant until 1950. The service corps is Pakistan army's most senior administrative corps with its mission for management of transportation and military logistics since 1947. From 1947 till 1957, the

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provided the crucial training support and education on military logistics its officers who were commissioned in the Army Service Corps. Since 1966, the Army Service Corps is now stationed in Nowshera along with its Army Service College that provides the necessary training and education and training for the personnel to be commissioned in the corps of service. The Army Service Corps is commanded by its director-general who is usually at two-star rank, major-general, working directly under the

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