Military Intelligence (Pakistan)
{{Short description|Pakistan Army's staff corps for defense intelligence gathering.}}
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| dates = {{start date and age|March 1948}}
| country = {{PAK}}
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| branch = {{Army|PAK}}
| type = Combat service support
| role = Administrative and staffing oversight.
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| garrison = Army GHQ in Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan
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| nickname = MI
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| anniversaries = 1948
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| commander1 = Maj-Gen. Wajid Aziz
| commander1_label = Director-General
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| notable_commanders = Lt-Gen. Jamshed Gulzar Kiani
Lt-Gen. Sarfraz Ali
Lt-Gen. Hamid Gul
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The Directorate of Military Intelligence is a military administrative and the staff service branch of the Pakistan Army.
The military intelligence provides assessments on capabilities of competing nations while its mission parameters includes to gather informations on identifying and eliminating sleeper cells, foreign agents, and other anti-state elements within Pakistan, including investigation of military espionage.
Overview
The Military Intelligence was established in March 1948 led by Colonel Mohamed Abdul Latif Khan, responsible for army counter intelligence and security, along with tactical and operational intelligence collection and analysis.{{cite book|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Pakistan_s_Inter_Services_Intelligence_D/SzGTDAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22%27Military%20Intelligence%20(Pakistan)%22&pg=PA7&printsec=frontcover|title=Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate: Covert Action and Internal Operations|page=7|author=Owen L. Sirrs|year=2016}}
During its earlier times, the military intelligence had strong ties with the British Army's Intelligence Corps through its British officers, and was specific to its army counterintelligence matters.{{rp|60}}{{cite book |last1=Sirrs |first1=Owen L. |title=Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate: Covert Action and Internal Operations |date=1 July 2016 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-19609-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_S-TDAAAQBAJ&q=pakistan+military+intelligence+mission |access-date=6 December 2023 |language=en}}{{Cite web
| title =Military Intelligence
| work =globalsecurity.org
| publisher =Global Security.org
| year =2000
| url =http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/world/pakistan/mi.htm
| access-date =June 3, 2011 }}
Even as of today, the military intelligence reports directly to Army GHQ in Rawalpindi, and initially focused on the Indian military advancement in east and on the Taliban's insurgency in the western areas as of 2008.{{cite book |last1=Cloughley |first1=Brian |title=A History of the Pakistan Army: Wars and Insurrections |date=5 January 2016 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=978-1-63144-039-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3SqCDwAAQBAJ&q=military+intelligence |access-date=6 December 2023 |language=en}}{{rp|62}}
The military intelligence works in close coordination with the Air Intelligence and the Naval Intelligence in protecting the military interests of the country. Its mission also includes to complete security clearances of the army officers working on sensitive assignments within the Pakistan Army.{{cite web |url=https://fas.org/irp/world/pakistan/mi/index.html |title=Military Intelligence - Pakistan Intelligence Agencies |website=fas.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000229094126/http://www.fas.org/irp/world/pakistan/mi/index.html |archive-date=2000-02-29}} The education, training, and qualification for its personnel to be part of the Military Intelligence is provided by its School of Military Intelligence that is based in Karachi Cantonment, Sindh in Pakistan.{{cite book |last1=Cheema |first1=Pervaiz Iqbal |title=The Armed Forces of Pakistan |date=2002 |publisher=NYU Press |isbn=978-0-8147-1633-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cw_gduyRv5oC&dq=pakistan+army+service+corps+college&pg=PA55 |access-date=17 December 2023 |language=en}}
The Military Intelligence is directed by the Director-General at the active-duty senior two-star ranking Major-General who usually works under the Chief of the General Staff at the Army GHQ in Rawalpindi, Punjab in Pakistan.
See also
References
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Category:Military units and formations established in 1948
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