Strategic Plans Division Force

SPD Force
عسکری حکمتِ عملی ڈیوژن فورس
Founded2 February 2000 (2000-02-02)
Country Pakistan
BranchNational Command Authority
RoleStrategic/Protection of nuclear materials
Size25,000+[1]
Garrison/HQJoint Staff HQ in Rawalpindi, Punjab
Nickname(s)SPDF
Commanders
Director-General of Strategic Plans Division ForceLt-Gen. Yusuf Jamal

Strategic Plans Division Force (SPD Force) is a paramilitary force tasked with responsibility of safeguarding and protecting of nuclear materials as well as providing security to nation's tactical and strategic nuclear weapons stockpile and the strategic assets.[2][3]

Formed as a security branch of the National Command Authority (NCA) in 2000,[4] its leadership appointments directly comes from the Army HQ of the Pakistan Army with agency head serves its Director-General. Lieutenant-General Yusuf Jamal is its current director-general.

  1. ^ International Institute for Strategic Studies (February 2024). The Military Balance 2024. London: Routledge. ISBN 9781032780047.
  2. ^ "No PR71/2013-ISPR". www.ispr.gov.pk. ISPR. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
  3. ^ "COAS reposes full confidence in Pakistan's nuclear security regime". ARY News. November 13, 2015. Archived from the original on 3 February 2016. Retrieved 26 March 2016.
  4. ^ "Kidwai to retire as head of Pakistan's n-programme caretakers". The Express Tribune. December 18, 2013. Archived from the original on 13 November 2014. Retrieved 26 March 2016.

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