Army Strategic Forces Command (Pakistan)
| Army Strategic Forces Command (Pakistan) | |
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Badge of Army Strategic Forces Command, Rawalpindi | |
| Active | 2000 |
| Country | Pakistan |
| Branch | Pakistan Army |
| Type | Command and control (C2) |
| Role | Strategic deterrence Ground-based First Strike |
| Size | ☓☓☓ Corps (Though, it is vary due to troops rotations based on strategic calculus) |
| Headquarters | Joint Staff HQ in Chaklala, Punjab, Pakistan |
| Colors Identification | Red and White |
| Commanders | |
| Commander | Lt-Gen. Shahbaz Khan |
| Chief of Staff | Brig. Amer Riaz |
| Maneuver Corps of the Pakistan Army | ||||
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The Army Strategic Forces Command (ASFC) is a strategic and missile formation of the Pakistan Army.: 338 Headquartered at the Joint Staff HQ in Chaklala near Rawalpindi,: 388 the strategic command controls the land-based ballistics and cruise missile systems—both nuclear and conventional.: 240
Its organizational structure is model based on the conventional corps with its operations similar to Regiment of Artillery, and responsible only for the ground-based strategic nuclear deterrence.