Army Air Defence Command (Pakistan)

The Pakistan Army Air Defence Command ,(Urdu: ﺁرمى أير ڈفينص کمانڈ; Army Air Defence Command, abbreviated as AADC) (not to be mixed with Pakistan Army Air Defence Corps which is an Administrative Corps), is an active military combatant corps of the Pakistan Army and a major combative formation tasked with air defences of strategic assets of Pakistan from foreign Aerial threats. Army Air Defence Command was formed and headquartered at the Chaklala Army Cantonment in Rawalpindi, Punjab Province of Pakistan. following military exercises where Pakistan's military learned of its weakness in providing air cover over a moving battlefield.[1] Air Defence Command consists of a total of five military divisions spread across two geographic districts; one tasked with air defence of the northern region of Pakistan headquartered in Lahore and the other with the southern region commanded from Quetta.

An Army Air Defence Regiment lowers the Regimental Flag during march past

Pakistan Army Air Defence Command
Active	10 October 1999 - retired
Country	Pakistan
Branch	Pakistan Army
Type	Army Corps
Role	Combined arms formation Air Defence Warfare
Size	10,000 approximately (vary as troops are rotated)
Part of	Pakistan Army Air Defence Corps
HQ/Command Control Headquarter	Rawalpindi, Punjab
Engagements	Kargil War 2001–2002 India–Pakistan standoff
Decorations	Military Decorations of Pakistan Military
Commanders
Colonel-in-Chief	General Ehsan ul Haq
Colonel Commandant of Army Air Defence	Lt Gen Hamood Uz Zaman Khan
Commander Army Air Defence Command	Lt Gen Muhammad Zafar Iqbal
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