Participants of first PMA long course gave Pak Army best leadership: COAS

Dunya News

The Army Chief paid a rich tribute to the role of former military officers.

RAWALPINDI (Dunya News) – Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Tuesday said that the participants of first Pakistan Military Academy (PMA) Long Course gave best leadership to the Pakistan Army.

According to a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the COAS attended the platinum jubilee ceremony of the Long Course of the Pakistan Military Academy (PMA).

Addressing the ceremony, Gen Bajwa said that the Pakistani army has established an Army Military History Institute to preserve historical events.

The young military officers could draw guidance advice from historical events preserved at the institute, the army chief added.

According to the ISPR, the first long PMA course had begun in January 1948 and 62 military officers, including Major Martyr Aziz Bhatti (Nishan-e-Haider), commissioned in the army on February 4, 1950.

The Army Chief also paid a rich tribute to the role of former military officers.