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![[Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee]](../images/p/pk^cjcsc.gif)
image by Zoltan Horvath, 22 August 2024
Here is the flag of the Pakistani Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff Committee, taken from Album des Pavillons (2000). I used the 5:8 ratio given in
the Album, even though its image is actually the same 2:3 size used for the
President and Chief of Naval Staff images on either side of the Chairman's
flag in the Album. I preserved the ratio of white to green of 1 to 5 and
used RGB 0:102:51 as the closest match for the shade of green. The central device and wreath are touched up from a scan of the Album
picture, used with permission.
Joe McMillan, 19 February 2001
I can confirm, from a meeting at Joint Staff Headquarters, that the flag shown
in Album des Pavillons (2000) is
correct, except that the veining in the leaves is light yellow rather than green
and the yellow circle surrounding the badge is narrower. It flies outside the
Joint Staff HQ along with the national flag and the
Joint Staff flag and is displayed with the national flag in the conference room.
The embroidered version in the conference room is trimmed with green, white,
red, yellow, dark blue, and light blue intermingled fringe; the national flag
with which it is displayed has green and white intermingled fringe. Both appear
to be less than the normal 2:3 ratio--possibly 3:4 or 4:5--but I wasn't in a
position to do any measuring.
Joe McMillan, 12 January 2003
![[Joint Staff]](../images/p/pk^js.gif)
image by Zoltan Horvath, 22 August 2024
A vertical tricolor red-dark blue-light blue, with the same combined services
device as on the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee flag on the center
(without the gold ring). On the outdoor flag, the device was fimbriated white
(shown here); on the indoor flag displayed in the Director General's office
it was fimbriated gold.
Joe McMillan, 12 January 2003
![[Joint Staff]](../images/p/pk^jcos.jpg)
image located by Dave Martucci, 22 April 2011
On the CTV News web page this morning there is a photo that includes some
Pakistan military flags. At first glance I thought the colors were very
different but when I copied the picture and changed the brightness some, the
darkest color in the three flags at the right side are all green, as expected,
and the two on the left are dark blue, also as expected. However the flag of the
Pakistan Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee shows the vertical stripes in a
different order than above. The flag in the photo has vertical stripes of red,
dark blue, light blue from the hoist to the fly rather than the dark blue, red,
and light blue order we show on the site. The CTV News page is at
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/World/20110422/pakistan-afghan-border-missile-strikes-110422.
Dave Martucci, 22 April 2011
The flag of the Defense Service Guard: Horizontally divided light blue-dark
blue-red with a silver emblem in the middle (slightly spreading over the upper
and lower stripes). Emblem includes two spreading wings, an anchor and two
sabers in saltire. Below is a ribbon with D.S.G.
Michel Lupant, reported by Ivan Sache, 16 October 2001
Flags of all branches of the Armed Forces can be seen in use at:
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news
Zoltan Horvath, 22 August 2024
![[Army]](../images/p/pk^army.gif)
image
by Zoltan Horvath, 22 August 2024
The flag has a white a stripe along the hoist, two crossed swords and the crescent and star.
![[Army]](../images/p/pk^.gif)
2:3, by Joe McMillan
The car of a lieutenant general assigned to the Army GHQ carried a green flag
with the army device (crossed scimitars in white with gold hilts and pommels
beneath the white crescent and star opening toward the upper hoist). Based on
its similarity to flags used by other British-derived armies, I'd guess this is
the Pakistan Army flag. I saw this as a car flag on a senior Army officer's car.
Joe McMillan, 12 January 2003
![[Army badge]](../images/p/pk_army.gif)
by Ralph Kelly
On the television news tonight was film of a Pakistan military parade. In the
foreground was a Pakistan flag which substituted the Army emblem for the
crescent and star. Is this an army flag? Has it been previously reported?
Attached is the Pakistan Army emblem, from a website called
Fifty Years of the
Pakistan Army.
Ralph Kelly, 5 October 2002
It depends on the proportion of the flag. If it's 2:3, it's the army chief of
staff flag. If it's 1:2, it's the army commander-in-chief flag. There is also a
swallow-tailed, 2:3 variant, for general officers. All three flags are shown in
Flags of All Nations (HMSO 1958).
Miles Li, 5 October 2002
I don't think it is any of these flags. The image, albeit seen very briefly,
substituted the army emblem on to a flag with the same proportions as the
Pakistani national flag. Both the Chief of Staff and Commander in Chief flags,
as per BR20 Volume II, have a very narrow white vertical stripe, whereas the
flag observed had the normal width of the the white stripe.
Ralph Kelly, 5 October 2002
There is no such position as commander-in-chief of the army. The army is
headed by the chief of army staff (not "chief of staff of the army")--General
Pervez Musharraf at the moment--and below him the several corps commanders. I
believe Commander-in-Chief is the former title, used up to the 1950s, which
could account for its appearance in Flags of All Nations (HMSO
1958).
Joe McMillan, 6 October 2002
In Mohamed Amin et al. (1988), Defenders of Pakistan (Lahore: Ferozsons (Pvt) Ltd, 1988) it is stated (p. 73): A tank described as "Command Tank, flying the Commander's pennants..." The photo shows two small red triangular pennants one above the other on the lower part of an antenna.
(p.108): A parade of tanks shows the center leading vehicle with soldiers standing in the turret carrying a pair of colors, designs not visible. Each tank in the two left (of three) columns carries a small red triangular pennant on the antenna, while the tanks in the right column each have two such pennants, similar to the picture on page 73. The same arrangement appears in a photo of armored personnel carriers on page 111.
(p.109): A parade of the Presidential Bodyguard shows the same red-over-white
pennons mentioned above, plus two troopers carrying small national flags with
cords and tassels and silver crescent-and-star finials. The flags appear to be
about 35-40 cm on the hoist. They are not flying free, so I cannot tell whether
any additional emblems appear other than the crescent and star.
(p. 110): In a formation of self-propelled howitzers, the center lead vehicle
has a soldier carrying a colour consisting of the national flag with a badge
embroidered in the upper hoist. The dimensions appear to conform to British
usage (36 x 45 inches) and the flag is trimmed with apparently white fringe and
carried on a staff with a silver crescent and star finial. Some of the howitzers
carry two swallow-tailed pennants, red over blue, on the antenna.
Joe McMillan, 2 January 2003
![[Chief of Army staff]](../images/p/pk^chief.gif)
image
by Zoltan Horvath, 22 August 2024
The flag of the Chief of Army Staff is similar to that of the army, but
the emblem is surrounded by a wreath.
Arfan Hashmi, 23 May 2005
Images of flag:
https://asianews.network
https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk
Zoltan Horvath, 22 August 2024
Notwithstanding the discussion above, HMSO 1958 shows three flags of rank for positions in the Pakistan army.
![[Chief of Staff]](../images/p/pk^acofs.gif)
by Miles Li
![[Commander-in-Chief]](../images/p/pk^acinc.gif)
by Miles Li
![[Principal Staff Officers]](../images/p/pk^apso.gif)
by Miles Li
A green flag with the college emblem on the center in color.
Joe McMillan, 12 January 2003
![[Staff College]](../images/p/pk-staffcoll.gif)
by Arfan Hashmi
Maroon/dark red background superimposed by the college's arms. The wording in
Arabic reads "IQRA" (meaning 'say'). These were also the first words conveyed to
the Prophet Muhammad SAW by the Angel Gabriel in the caves of Mount Hira after
which he (the Prophet) started his mission [to spread Islam].
Arfan Hashmi, 23 May 2005
![[Pakistan Military Academy Kakul]](../images/p/pk^pmakakul.jpg)
by Arfan Hashmi
The Pakistan Military Academy Kakul, equivalent to Sandhurst or West Point,
shows a stylised format of the army's crossed swords and crescent and star.
Arfan Hashmi, 23 May 2005
Flying above the main gate of the headquarters, orange with the command
formation sign on the center (a black disk with a silver snow leopard salient
issuing from the fly edge of the disk). Note that, as in India, most army posts
apparently do not fly the national flag on a regular basis. At least the one in
Gilgit didn't.
Joe McMillan, 12 January 2003
A car pennant: the same snow leopard device on a
black (or possibly dark blue) triangular pennant. In a briefing at the
headquarters, I noticed that Pakistan uses emblems of the same shape to
indicate brigade headquarters on maps, so I would guess all brigade
commanders use triangular pennants with the higher headquarters formation
sign on them.
Joe McMillan, 12 January 2003
![[Corps Commander]](../images/p/pk^xcorp.gif)
2:3, by Joe McMillan
Car flag - These seem to be flag versions of the corps
formation signs. The one I saw was red with a white horizontal stripe
slightly above center with a yellow rising sun issuing from the lower edge
of the white stripe, 11 rays visible (10th Corps). I also saw a similar
red-white-red flag with a black disk on the center inscribed with a white
A--not sure what command that would represent.
Joe McMillan, 12 January 2003
A couple of weeks ago I reported having seen the car flag of the general
officer commanding the Tenth Corps of the Pakistan Army. A little more digging
has taught me that the horizontal R-W-R pattern for corps formation signs--and
therefore corps commander flags--is traditional for armies with a British
heritage. There are also standard patterns for the flags of army or command
commanders, divisions, and brigades. These will become more apparent when I turn
to more Indian material from Maj Gen Chand Das's book.
Anyway, X Corps, Pakistan Army - The GOC flies a red-white-red horizontal
triband with a rising sun issuing from the lower edge of the white stripe.
Besides its use on the GOC's automobiles, it would also fly at his headquarters.
Other corps commanders would also use red-white-red tribands but with the
charges from their respective corps formation signs in lieu of the sunburst.
![[Khyber Rifles]](../images/p/pk^khybrif.gif)
by Arfan Hashmi, 23 May 2005
At the border post at Torkham, the crossing point between Pakistan and
Afghanistan at the Afghan end of the Khyber Pass, on the Pakistani side of the
gate were two flagpoles, one with the Pakistani national flag and the other with
the flag of the Khyber Rifles, the unit of the Pakistani Frontier Corps
responsible for law and order in the area surrounding the Khyber Pass. The
Khyber Rifles flag is a horizontal tricolor, black-white-light blue, with the
Khyber Rifles emblem (a stylized representation of Jamrud Fort surmounting two
Pathan fighting knives in saltire) on a red disk on the center. (Identification
of this latter flag courtesy of an officer of our Khyber Rifles escort.)
Joe McMillan, 22 January 2002
