Pakistan Army Corps of Engineers

Pakistan Army Corps of Engineers
Pakistan Army Corps of Engineers
	Badge of the Corps of Engineers
Founded	1947
Country	Pakistan
Branch	Pakistan Army
Type	Combat support service
Role	Administrative and staffing oversight of combat engineering.
Size	34 battalions
HQ/Garrison	Army GHQ, Rawalpindi-46100, Punjab in Pakistan.
Nickname(s)	ENGRS
Motto(s)	Urdu: روحِ رواں ; "The Moving Spirit"
Colors identification
Engagements/Civil Operations	See list: Indo-Pakistani Wars and Conflicts First Kashmir War (1947–1948); 1965 Rann of Kutch skirmishes; Second Kashmir War (1965); 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War Indo-Pakistani War of 1971; ; Siachen conflict (1984–2003) 1999 Kargil War; ; ; War in North-West Pakistan Operation Sherdil; Operation Black Thunderstorm; Second Battle of Swat; Operation Rah-e-Nijat; United Nations/NATO Missions Yugoslav Wars Bosnian War; ; Civil Engineering Projects / Humanitarian Relief Efforts 2005 Kashmir earthquake response; 2010 Attabad Lake disaster response; ;
Website	Pakistan Army − Engineers
Commanders
Engineer-in-Chief	Lt-Gen. Kashif Nazir
Notable; commanders	Lt-Gen. Aftab Ahmad Khan; Lt-Gen. Bakhtiar Rana; Lt-Gen. Gul Hassan Khan; Lt-Gen. Zahid Ali Akbar; Lt-Gen. Javed Nasir; Lt-Gen. Anwar Khan
Insignia
War Flag

The Pakistan Army Corps of Engineers is a military administrative and the engineering staff branch of the Pakistan Army. The Corps of Engineers is generally associated with the civil engineering works, dams, canals, and flood protection, it performs and leads variety of public works in the country as part of its nation-building mission.

The Corps of Engineer is commanded by the Engineer-in-Chief who acts as an army's chief topographer, and advises the Army GHQ on matters of civil engineering and construction. As of 2023, the current Engineer-in-Chief is Lt-Gen. Kashif Nazir.

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