01. General Sir Frank Messervy (August 15, 1947 - February 10, 1948)

02. General Sir Douglas David Gracey (February 11, 1948 - January 16, 1951)

03. Field Marshal Ayub Khan (January 16, 1951 - October 26, 1958)

04. General Musa Khan (October 27, 1958 - June 17, 1966)

05. General Yahya Khan (June 18, 1966 – December 20, 1971)

06. General Gul Hassan (December 20, 1971 - March 3, 1972)

07. General Tikka Khan (March 3, 1972 – March 1, 1976)

08. General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (April 1, 1976 - August 17, 1988)

09. General Mirza Aslam Beg (August 17, 1988 - August 16, 1991)

10. General Asif Nawaz (August 16, 1991 - January 8, 1993)

11. General Wahid Kakar (January 8, 1993 - December 1, 1996)

12. General Jehangir Karamat (December 1, 1996 - October 6, 1998)

13. General Pervez Musharraf (October 7, 1998 - November 28, 2007)

14. General Ashfaq Pervez Kiyani (November 28, 2007 - Present)


Structure of Army Units

The Pakistani Army is divided into two main branches which are Arms and Services. Arms include infantry, artillery, armor, engineers, and communications and Services includes ordnance Corps, maintenance and repair Corps, electrical and mechanical engineering corps, education corps, military police corps, and the remount, veterinary, and farm corps.