The Pakistan Army Corps of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering is a military administrative and the engineering staff branch of the Pakistan Army.
The EME provides maintenance and inspections of wide range of Pakistan Army's mechanized and aviation assets and provides machinery of components besides supporting expertise in electrical works for the Pakistan Army.
Overview
The Pakistan Army Corps of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering (EME) was formed as a separate maintenance arm into the Pakistan Army from the partition of the British Indian Army's Corps of EME— only twenty officers joining the arm. It was the British officers in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) that provided the support and training to raise the corps to help maintain the equipment of the Pakistan Army. Brigadier Vivian Edgar Beards was the first officer commanding of the EME when it was commissioned in the Pakistan Army as a corps on 20 October 1947.
From its early years, the education on electrical and mechanical engineering was provided by the Loughborough University with a mutual agreement between the British Army and the Pakistan Army. In 1957, the Pakistan Army established the College of Electrical & Mechanical Engineering with support from the United States Army. Subsequently, many officers of the army went to universities in the United States to study electrical and mechanical engineering. The College of Electrical & Mechanical Engineering was later upgraded in 1969.
The Corps of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering did not restrict its support to the army but extended its support to air force and navy, though each branch established its own staff corps to maintain their arms within their units. In 1960, an airborne course was established in the EME, making it mandatory for its officers and personnel to complete the parachute course— the EME has the oldest active parachutist courses in the country. In the 1970s, the Corps of EME played a crucial role in support of the machining of components, PCB prints, and the engineering aspects of the Pakistan's nuclear weapons program.
Many of its officers were instrumental in establishing the Combat Development Directorate, which was the pursuant of the Strategic Plans Division, that advised the Army GHQ in matters of nuclear-based strategic deterrence.
The Corps of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering is commanded the by its Director-General, usually at the active-duty two-star rank, Major-General, who works under the Chief of the General Staff at the GHQ (Pakistan).
Some Notable Units 3 Technical Training Battalion EME 4 Technical Training Battalion EME 10 Electrical & Mechanical Engineering Battalion 41 EME Battalion 42 EME Battalion 43 EME Battalion 44 EME Battalion 47 EME Battalion 49 EME Battalion 50 EME Battalion 52 EME Battalion 53 EME Battalion [CEME 18 Div]
54 EME Battalion
58 EME Battalion 59 EME Battalion 70 EME Battalion 90 EME Battalion 91 EME Battalion [CEME 37 Div] 92 EME Battalion [CEME 35 Div "Behtreen Banway"] 94 EME Battalion 95 EME Battalion 118 EME Battalion 544 Heavy EME Battalion 546 EME Battalion 699 Aviation EME Battalion
Director Generals EME NameStart of TermEnd of TermBrig W. P. B. Ashton1948 1955Brig M. Mohamedi19551967Maj Gen K.M. Masud19671972Brig M. Karim Ullah1972 1976Maj Gen Syed Ali Nawab19761976MMaj Gen M. Jalal Ud Din19761978Maj Gen Syed Saeed Akhtar19781981Maj Gen Qazi Abid Hussain1981 1986Maj Gen S. Qamar-uz-Zaman1986 1988Brig Abdul Majid19881988Maj Gen Javed Anwer Hashmi19881993Maj Gen Munir Hassan Khalid19931995Maj Gen Mian Salim Uddin19951998Maj Gen Sikandar Hayat19982001Maj Gen Akber Saeed Awan20012002Maj Gen Fazl-i-Ilahi 20022008Maj Gen Jamshed Riaz20082012Maj Gen Khalid Mahmood 20122015Maj Gen Rehan Baqi20152018Maj Gen Hassan Akhtar20182021Maj Gen Ayub Ahsan Bhatti20212025Maj Gen Attique Ahmed2025Current
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