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The Frontier Force Regiment (commonly known as the Piffers) was officially raised on May 18, 1849 by Colonel Henry Lawrence.
The force was composed of five regiments of cavalry, the Corps of Guides (both infantry and cavalry), four mountain batteries, one garrison heavy battery, four regiments of Sikh infantry, six regiments of Punjab infantry and one regiment of Gurkha infantry.Today the Regiment stands out in all the professional fields and has truly rocked the enemy on many movements with the LABBAIK slogan.
All the regimental groups were amalgamated in 1956 to form one regiment, the Frontier Force Regiment.
Colonels in Chief
- General Muhammad Musa Khan HJ, HPk, HQA, MBE. August 31, 1964 - March 12, 1991
- General Abdul Wahid Kakar HI (M), SBt. May 18, 1993 - May 17, 1997
Colonel Commandants
- Major General Mian Hayauddin HJ, MBE, MC.
- Lieutenant General Khalid Masud Sheikh.
- General Muhammad Musa Khan HPk, HQA, MBE.
- Lieutenant General Altaf Qadir MBE.
- Lieutenant General M Attiqur Rahman HPk, HQA, MC.
- Lieutenant General Agha Ali Ibrahim Akram.
- Lieutenant General Khushdil Khan Afridi HI (M), SBt.
- Lieutenant General Ahmed Kamal Khan HI (M), SI (M), SBt.
- Lieutenant General Imranullah Khan HI (M), SI (M), SBt.
- Lieutenant General Mumtaz Gul HI (M), TBt.
- Lieutenant General Tahir Ali Qureshi HI (M), SBt.
- Lieutenant General Mushtaq Hussain HI (M).
- Lieutenant General Munir Hafiez.
- Lieutenant General Sabahat Hussain HI (M)
Regimental Center Commandants
- Colonel Malik Sher Afzal Khan
- Colonel Hamid Ullah Khan
- Colonel Mahboob Khan TQA
- Colonel G M K Junjua
- Colonel M Mumtaz Khan SJ
- Colonel Mir Ijaz Mahmood SJ
- Brigadier Mir Ijaz Mahmood SJ
- Brigadier Jahanzeb Khan
- Brigadier Muhammad Aslam
- Colonel K A Shamshad
- Brigadier R A S Bokhari
- Brigadier Fateh Khan
- Brigadier Ghulam Rabbani Khan
- Brigadier Jahanzeb Khan
- Brigadier Mir Abdul Nayeem
- Brigadier M Mumtaz Malik SJ
- Brigadier Salahuddin Rana
- Brigadier Muneeb-ur-Rehman Farooqui SI(M)
- Brigadier Zaffar Hayat
- Brigadier Fazle Qadir T.Bt
- Brigadier Muhammad Ehsan
- Brigadier Mansoor Hamid
- Brigadier Muhammad Ishaq
- Brigadier Arshad Shah
- Colonel Malik Abdul Ghaffar
- Brigadier Obaidullah Niazi
- Brigadier Sikander Javed
Alliances
United Kingdom - The Royal Anglian Regiment; 5th Bn
External links
- The Frontier Force, before the partition of India.
- Land Forces of Britain, the Empire and Commonwealth: The Frontier Force Regiment
- Land Forces of Britain, the Empire and Commonwealth: 12th Frontier Force Regiment
- Pakistan Military Consortium: 12th Frontier Force Regiment
- Land Forces of Britain, the Empire and Commonwealth: 13th Frontier Force Rifles
- Land Forces of Britain, the Empire and Commonwealth: The Pathan Regiment
- Land Forces of Britain, the Empire and Commonwealth: Queen Victoria's Own Corps of Guides (Frontier Force) (Lumsden's)