10 Facts About Frontier Corps

Frontier Corps, is a paramilitary force of Pakistan in the provinces of Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, to maintain law and order while overseeing the control of the country's borders with Afghanistan and Iran.

The Frontier Corps is an umbrella term for two separate organizations: FC KP stationed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, and FC Balochistan stationed in Balochistan province.

Frontier Corps was created in 1907 by Lord Curzon, the viceroy of British India, in order to organize seven militia and scout units in the tribal areas along the border with Afghanistan: the Khyber Rifles, the Zhob Militia, the Kurram Militia, the Tochi Scouts, the Chagai Militia, the South Waziristan Scouts and the Chitral Scouts.

Frontier Corps was led by an "inspecting officer" who was a British officer of the rank of lieutenant colonel.

In 2007, after the collapse of truce agreements between the Pakistani government and local militants, the Frontier Corps, teamed with regular Pakistani military units, conducted incursions into tribal areas controlled by the militants.

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Frontier Corps has fired occasionally on the US -assisted Afghan Army.

Senior command posts of the Frontier Corps are filled by officers seconded from the Pakistan Army for two to three years.

Frontier Corps is divided into thirty-four local units—-fifteen in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province and nineteen in Balochistan.

Frontier Corps units are locally recruited and are officered by Pakistani Army officers.

Frontier Corps Pakistan have access to the aviation facilities via Pakistan Army.