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Pakistan Army's 10 Corps Gets New Commander As ISPR Trains Students For Hybrid Warfare Against India
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A General Shaped by Proxy Battlefields
Lt Gen Amer Ahsan Nawaz, currently serving as Military Secretary at GHQ, will replace Lt Gen Shahid Imtiyaz as Commander of 10 Corps. His pedigree is entrenched in Pakistan’s military elite — he is a third-generation officer, the son of former 31 Corps Commander Lt Gen Khalid Nawaz Khan and the grandson of a former MS of the Army.
Commissioned in the 82nd PMA Long Course, he is a graduate of Command & Staff College Quetta, Fort Leavenworth in the United States, and the National Defence University Islamabad.
His career trajectory has passed through all the theatres most associated with Pakistan’s proxy strategies. He commanded the 3 Baloch Regiment, 5 POK Brigade in Muzaffarabad, and served as Chief of Staff at 11 Corps Peshawar, the headquarters overseeing counter-insurgency in the tribal belt. Later, he led 12 Corps in Murree. According to senior officers quoted in Dawn, Amer Ahsan Nawaz is regarded as “well-versed in offensive and defensive handling of proxy war,” having spent decades in theatres shaped by militant militias and irregular warfare.
From Quetta to Rawalpindi: Hybrid Warfare’s Academic Architect
As Commandant of the Command & Staff College Quetta, Nawaz introduced cyber and AI components into the curriculum, along with modules on hybrid and algorithmic warfare. Faculty members told local defence reporters that under his tenure, the college “moved beyond conventional manoeuvre warfare” to incorporate information campaigns, digital influence operations, and cyber resilience. This doctrinal shift is now expected to travel with him to 10 Corps, the formation that directly manages the Line of Control (LoC) with India.
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ISPR’s Youth Army: Indoctrination as Recruitment
Parallel to the reshuffle, the ISPR has rolled out its largest-ever “Summer Internship Programme,” enrolling 6,500 students from 150 institutions across 33 cities, most in cantonment towns. In public statements, ISPR has framed the programme as exposure to “Pakistan’s regional dynamics, geopolitics, history and military studies.” But former participants, sometimes referred to as “Ex-5G Warriors,” describe a more directed process of indoctrination and deployment.
According to these alumni, the internship includes classroom indoctrination in Pakistan Studies that glorifies the Army’s role, visits to Fauji units to build esprit de corps, and meetings with pro-Army media influencers. More crucially, the programme introduces participants to “digital tools and techniques of social media,” culminating in supervised exercises led by ISPR and ISI’s Media Wing. Once the six-week programme ends, many are informally recruited into the Army’s vast information operations network — functioning as unpaid foot soldiers amplifying military propaganda online.
the synergy in the mind of pak
a general like Amer Ahsan Nawaz, who integrates hybrid doctrines at the top, now takes charge of 10 Corps, while ISPR simultaneously builds a civilian base capable of executing digital campaigns at scale. “It’s top-down doctrine meeting bottom-up manpower,” remarked a South Asia security analyst cited by Reuters. “The Army is ensuring that its information warfare apparatus has both leadership and labour.”
) but our local programs (follow on Mk1A order + Mk2) will suffer. If Mk2 goes the way of the dodo bird, AMCA will be DOA (Dead On Arrival).
