'Engineer-in-Chief or E-in-C', is a Colonel Commandant of the Pakistan Army Corps of Engineers, Frontier Works Organisation and the Military Engineering Services of Pakistan. In the Pakistan Army, the Engineer-in-Chief is a chief engineer and topographer of the Army and currently holds the rank of Lieutenant General, advises the Pakistan Army in matters of science, engineering, and technology.[1]
Lt Gen Kashif Nazir is current E-in-C of Pakistan Army Corps of Engineers, Military Engineering Service, and Frontier Works Organisation.
The Engineer-in-Chief commands the Corps of Engineers, Pakistan Army and other military engineering and maintenance corps of the Army. As a senior commander and senior staff officer at the Army General Headquarters (GHQ), the Engineer-in-Chief advises the Army on science and engineering matters and serves as the Army's topographer.
The E-in-C also serves as the proponent for real estate and other science and engineering programs of the Army. As commander of the Pakistan Army Corps of Engineers, the Engineer-in-Chief leads a major Army Engineering command in civil and military infrastructure programs. This office defines policy and guidance and plans direction for the organizations within the Corps.
| Equivalency | |||||||||||
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| Rank | Lieutenant General (3-Star) | ||||||||||
| NATO Equivalent | OF-8 | ||||||||||
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Rank Structure and Uniform Insignia
edit| Pakistani Officer Ranks | |||||||||||
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| Rank | Field Marshal (5-Star) | General (4-Star) | Lieutenant General (3-Star) | Major General (2-Star) | Brigadier General (1-Star) | Colonel | Lieutenant Colonel | Major | Captain | Lieutenant | 2nd Lieutenant |
| NATO Equivalent | OF-10 | OF-9 | OF-8 | OF-7 | OF-6 | OF-5 | OF-4 | OF-3 | OF-2 | OF-1 | OF-1 |
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| Pakistani Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) and Enlisted Ranks | |||||||||||
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| Rank | Subedar Major (JCO) | Subedar (JCO) | Naib Subedar (JCO) | Battalion Havildar Major | Battalion Quartermaster Havildar | Company Havildar Major | Company Quartermaster Havildar | Havildar | Naik | Lance Naik | Jawan |
| NATO Equivalent | None | None | None | OR-9 | OR-8 | OR-8 | OR-7 | OR-5/6 | OR-4 | OR-3 | OR-1/2 |
| Uniform Insignia | No Insignia | ||||||||||
Notable Engineers-in-Chief
edit- Lieutenant-General Muhammad Anwar Khan
- Major General Saad Tarique, 1972-1974
- Lieutenant-General Zahid Ali Akbar Khan
- Lieutenant-General Javed Nasir, 1991-1992
- Lieutenant General Ziauddin Butt
- Lieutenant General Shahid Niaz, HI(M)
- Lieutenant General Asif Ali
- Lieutenant General Khalid Asghar
- Lieutenant General Muhammad Afsar
- Major General Muhammad Ajmal Iqbal
- Lieutenant General MOAZZAM EJAZ
- Lieutenant General CH Muhammad AFZAL
Notes
edit- ^ "Maj-General Ashfaq Nadeem made DG MO". The Nation (Pakistan). 16 April 2011. Retrieved 2019-11-29.