Ranks, BPS Comparison of Pakistan Army, Navy and PAF

The following is a list of the ranks, insignia (badges) and BPS Pay Scales of the personnel of Pakistan Army, Navy and Air Force.

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Commissioned Officers Ranks

Officer rank badges are displayed on the shoulders.

BPS	Pakistan Army	Pakistan Air Force (PAF)	Pakistan Navy
BPS Apex	Field Marshal (5 Star) (it was only awarded to Field Marshal Ayub Khan)	Marshal of the Air Force (5 Star) (never awarded)	Admiral of the Fleet (5 Star) (never awarded)
BPS Apex	General (Gen) (4 Star)	Air Chief Marshal (ACM) (4 Star)	Admiral (Adm) (4 Star)
BPS-22	Lieutenant General (Lt Gen) (3 Star)	Air Marshal (AM) (3 Star)	Vice Admiral (V Adm) (3 Star)
BPS-21	Major General (Maj Gen) (2 Star)	Air Vice Marshal (AVM) (2 Star)	Rear Admiral (R Adm) (2 Star)
BPS-20	Brigadier (Brig) (1 Star)	Air Commodore (Air Cdre) (1 Star)	Commodore (Cdre) (1 Star)
BPS-19	Colonel (Col)	Group Captain (Gp Capt)	Captain (Capt)
BPS-19	Lieutenant Colonel (Lt Col)	Wing Commander (Wg Cdr)	Commander (Cdr)
BPS-18	Major (Maj)	Squadron Leader (Sqn Ldr)	Lieutenant Commander (Lt Cdr)
BPS-17	Captain (Capt)	Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt)	Lieutenant (Lt)
BPS-17	Lieutenant (Lt)	Flying Officer (Flg Off)	Sub Lieutenant (S/Lt)
BPS-17	Second Lieutenant (2nd Lt)	Pilot Officer (Plt Off)	Midshipman

Junior Commissioned Officers (JCOs) Ranks

JCOs also wear ranks on the shoulders of uniform.

	Pakistan Army	Pakistan Air Force	Pakistan Navy
BPS-16	Subedar Major	Chief Warrant Officer	Master Chief Petty Officer
BPS-15	Subedar	Warrant Officer	Fleet Chief Petty Officer
BPS-14	Naib Subedar	Assistant Warrant Officer	Chief Petty Officer

Non Commissioned Officers (NCOs) Ranks

The Non Commissioned Officers rank badges are displayed on arm sleeves.

	Pakistan Army	Pakistan Air Force	Pakistan Navy
BPS-13	Battalion Havildar Major	Chief Technician	Petty Officer
BPS-12	Battalion Quartermaster Havildar	Senior Technician
BPS-11	Company Havildar Major	Corporal Technician	Leading Rate
BPS-10	Company Quartermaster Havildar	Junior Technician
BPS-9	Havildar	Senior Aircraftman	Able Seaman
BPS-8	Lance Havildar	Leading Aircraftman
BPS-8	Naik (Nk)
BPS-7	Lance Naik	Aircraftman	Ordinary Rate
BPS-7	Soldier

All the information given here collected from different online resources including official websites of these three forces. However if anybody found any error or omission in this post, please write it in comments.

10 Best Special Forces of the World including SSG Pakistan

Special forces are highly trained military units to perform special and unconventional tasks. Wonderfulengineering.com has recently published a video report titled "10 Best Special Forces of the World" on it Facebook page. Below is the list of these Top-10 Special Forces:

10. Australian SASR
9. SSG Pakistan
8. Unidad de Operaciones Especiales Spain
7. Alpha Group Russia
6. National Gendarmerie Intervention Group France
5. Sayeret Matkal Israel
4. Special Boat Service United Kingdom
3. Navy Seal United States
2. Army's Delta Force United States
1. The British SAS

SSG (Special Services Group) of Pakistan is also included in this list and ranked at 9th positions. It is an honor for Pakistan that such unbiased international organizations always included Pakistani commandos in worlds best special forces. In fact, SSG Pakistan is always in the best special forces; no matter what is the criteria and who is preparing the list. Pakistan may be at number 1 or at number 10, but they cannot be ignored while preparing such lists. Even enemies of Pakistan acknowledged the bravery, courage, skills, professionalism and patriotism of Pakistani soldiers in the field. Earlier this year, "Business Insider Australia" ranked SSG on 1st position. 

SSG was created in 1956. It is also known as Black Storks and Maroon Berets. Its headquarter is in Tarbela. Its total strength is about 7,000 brave men serving in 10 battalions. It has completed several successful missions in Pakistan and abroad; during peace or war. SSG commandos cut their thumb to stamp the oath form with their blood.

Another interesting thing is that India is nowhere in the list.

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Posted by Wonderful Engineering on Monday, October 12, 2015

Pakistan included in "15 Most Powerful Militaries of the World"

Global Firepower (GFP) used over 50 factors to determine ranking of today's World Top Military Powers. These factors include Population, Area, Available Manpower, Active Military Manpower, Reserve Military Manpower, Tanks, Aircraft, Helicopters, Airports, Naval Ships, Submarines, Coastline, Borders, Oil Production and Consumption, Railways and Road Infrastructure, Annual Defense Budget, Gold and Foreign Exchange Reserves etc.

Total 106 countries were included in the GFP database. Data and facts are collected through publicly available information. And by using this complex data, Power Index (Pwrindx) is assigned to each nation.

Pakistan came at 15th position. 

USA is at first position, Russia 2nd, China 3rd, India 4th, UK 5th, France 6th, Germany 7th, Turkey 8th, South Korea 9th, Japan 10th, Israel 11th, Italy 12th, Egypt 13th, Brazil 14th and Pakistan 15th.

Iran at 22nd position, Saudi Arabia 25th, Syria 26th, Bangladesh 56th, Jordan 67th, Iraq 68th, Oman 69th, Kuwait 74th and Afghanistan is at 76th.

Libya, Sudan, Kazakhstan, Bahrain, Qatar and Lebanon stand at 78 to 83  numbers accordingly. 

List of the "35 Most Powerful Militaries in the World" is given below while major factors are given against each country.

Source: GFP and
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