Women and Minorities in the Army

Women and Minorities in the Army

Female cadets of Pakistan Military Academy stand guard at Quaid-e-Azam’s mausoleum.

Women

Women have served in the Pakistani Army since its foundation. Currently, there is a sizable number of Women serving in the army. Most women are recruited in the regular Army to perform medical and educational work. There is also a Women's Guard section of Pakistan's National Guard where women are trained in nursing, welfare and clerical work and there are also women recruited in very limited numbers for the Janbaz Force. Only recently has Pakistan began to recruit women for combat positions and the Elite Anti-Terrorist Force recently graduated women candidates to be Sky Marshals for Pakistan based airlines.^[18] In addition recently eight of the 41 cadets from the Pakistan Military Academy at Kakul became the first women guards of honour.^[19] Pakistan is the only country in the Islamic world to have women Major Generals in the Army.^[20]