Pakistan Army Corps of Service
The Pakistan Army Corps of Service is a military administrative and combat service support branch of the Pakistan Army.[1][2][3] Reporting from its headquarter in Nowshera Cantonment, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa 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 [4] 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 British Indian Army's Service Corps in November 1947.[2] Originally, the service corps was headquartered in Chaklala cantonment with Colonel Abdullah Jan as its commandant until 1950.: 1033 [5] The service corps is Pakistan army's most senior administrative corps with its mission for management of transportation and military logistics since 1947.[6]: 83 [7]: 55 [8] From 1947 till 1957, the British Army provided the crucial training support and education on military logistics its officers who were commissioned in the Army Service Corps.[2] The Army Service Corps is commanded by its director-general who is usually at two-star rank, major-general, working directly under the Chief of the General Staff, reporting from its headquarters in Nowshera.
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