Joint Staff Headquarters (Pakistan)

Joint Staff Headquarters
Type	Headquarters
Site information
Owner	Pakistan Armed Forces
Controlled by	Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee
Condition	Active Service
Site history
Built	1971
Built by	Pakistan Army Corps of Engineers
In use	Pakistan Armed Forces

The Joint Staff Headquarters (reporting name:JS HQ), is the combatant joint-field operations secretariat and principal headquarters of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee established after Indo-Pakistani war of 1971 in Rawalpindi.It is situated neighborhood to GHQ. The JS HQ served as the principle headquarters of Pakistan Armed Forces and concerned authorities relating the defence and strategic developments.

The JS HQ was set up to improve coordination, command and communication between the three arms of Pakistan Armed Forces.^[1]

Joint Staff Command in Media[edit]

An Inter-services personnel at the Joint Forces Command
A briefing sessions of Inter-Services personnel at JS HQ.
Admiral Mullen reviewing JS HQ in Islamabad.
An outside view of JS HQ

References[edit]

^ Zafar Iqbal Cheema (24 August 2000). "Pakistan's Nuclear Use Doctrine and Command & Control". In James J. Wirtz; Peter R. Lavoy; Scott D. Sagan. Planning the Unthinkable: How New Powers Will Use Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Weapons. Cornell University Press. p. 174. ISBN 978-0801487040. Retrieved 11 May 2012.