Pakistan Armed Forces deployments include all Pakistani military deployments that are stationed outside Pakistan and serving in other countries. Pakistan has an extensive history of overseas military presence, especially in the Middle East, where it has maintained military contingents and active-duty battalions in several states. As part of its foreign policy efforts to expand its military relations and influence in the region, Pakistan signed military protocols during the 1970s with Arab countries including Saudi Arabia, Libya, Jordan, Iraq, Oman, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait, under which members of the armed forces of these countries were imparted professional training by Pakistani advisers and military trainers.[1] Saudi Arabia signed a bilateral agreement with Pakistan on defense cooperation; during that time, there were 40,000 to 50,000 Pakistani military personnel serving abroad with the largest number of these, about 20,000, deployed in Saudi Arabia.[1] By the 1980s, Pakistan maintained military missions in 22 countries, becoming the largest military manpower deployer in the Third World.[1]
A large number of Pakistani military personnel continue to serve in training and advisory positions. The scope of these deployments comprises contingents and battalions of active-duty Pakistani military personnel located in these countries as part of an overseas military presence, including those serving in local defense forces and those involved in military missions and peacekeeping work.
"The scope for that investment was described by analyst Theodore Karaskik on these pages. He wrote that the models for the proposed pan-Arab military force assumed a 15 per cent Pakistani component even though they are not Arab." [10][11][12]
