Editing Pakistan Armed Forces (section)

==Special operations forces==
{{Main|Special Service Group|Special Service Group Navy|Special Service Wing}}
[[File:Pakistan Navy Special Service Group member silhouetted aboard Pakistan Navy Ship PNS Babur.jpg|thumb|A member of Pakistan Navy Special Service Group aboard Pakistan Navy Ship PNS ''Babur''.]]

After the [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1947]], recommendations for establishing an elite commando division within the army were accepted.{{citation needed|date=October 2015}} Commissioned in 1956 with help from [[US Army Special Forces]], the Pakistan Army's [[Special Services Group]] (SSG) is an elite special operations division; its training and nature of operations are roughly equivalent to British [[Special Air Service]] (SAS) and US Army Special Forces and [[Delta Force]].{{citation needed|date=October 2015}} Tentative estimates of the division's size are put at four battalions but the actual strength is kept highly classified.{{citation needed|date=October 2015}}

With the successful commissioning of Special Services Group, the Pakistan Navy accepted recommendations for commissioning its own special operational unit shortly after the [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1965]].<ref name="Amber Books publications co.">{{cite book|last1=Ryan|first1=Mike|last2=Mann|first2=Chris|last3=McKinney|first3=Alexander |title=The encyclopedia of the world's special forces: tactics, history, strategy, weapons|date=2003|publisher=Amber Books |location=London |isbn=978-1-907446-89-4|page=1000|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6-XuBQAAQBAJ&q=special+services+group&pg=PT250|access-date=30 December 2014|archive-date=5 February 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230205200137/https://books.google.com/books?id=6-XuBQAAQBAJ&q=special+services+group&pg=PT250|url-status=live}}</ref> Established as [[Special Service Group Navy]] (SSGN) in 1966, it is an elite and secretive commando division whose training and combat operations are similar to the Royal Navy's [[Special Boat Service]] and US Navy's [[U.S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group|Special Warfare Development Group]] (DEVGRU) and Sea, Air, Land ([[US Navy SEALs|SEAL]]) teams.<ref name="Amber Books publications co."/> Operatives' identities and actual static strength are kept secret and classified.<ref name="Amber Books publications co."/> Very few details of their missions are publicly known.<ref name="Amber Books publications co."/>

A small unit of [[Pakistan Marines]] have, since 1990, operated reconnaissance units to deter the [[Indian Army]]'s actions in the [[Sir Creek]] region.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pakistanaffairs.pk/threads/13516-Pakistan-s-Marines-Special-Military-Operations|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140504105252/http://www.pakistanaffairs.pk/threads/13516-Pakistan-s-Marines-Special-Military-Operations|archive-date=4 May 2014|title=Pakistan's Marines Special Military Operations|date=4 May 2014|access-date=10 December 2018}}</ref><ref name="GEO News reports">{{cite news|last1=Illyas|first1=Sohaib|title=A Day with Marines|url=http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x14bxd4_amazing-report-of-pakistani-marine-forces_news|access-date=30 December 2014 |work=GEO News |date=6 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150110074959/http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x14bxd4_amazing-report-of-pakistani-marine-forces_news|archive-date=10 January 2015}}</ref> Other battalions of Marines are trained to carry out operations with airborne, heliborne, submarine, and waterborne insertions and extractions.<ref name="Dunya News">{{cite news|last1=News Desk|title=Dunya News special report on Marines|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERGXJygqqz0|access-date=30 December 2014|work=Dunya News |date=6 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150719150548/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERGXJygqqz0|archive-date=19 July 2015|url-status=live}}</ref>

The [[Special Service Wing]] (SSW) is the newest special operations force, re-established by the Pakistan Air Force in 2004, in the wake of challenges posed by the [[War in Afghanistan (2001–present)|Afghanistan war]].<ref name="Air Force ISPR"/> The unit was active earlier by the name of Special Air Warfare Wing and had seen action during the [[Indo-Pakistani war of 1965|Indo-Pakistani War of 1965]] and [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1971|1971]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2010-04-09 |title=PAF flexes its muscles |url=http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=28202 |access-date=2024-02-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100409040308/http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=28202 |archive-date=9 April 2010 }}</ref> The SSW is designed to execute difficult aerial and land operations, serving as equivalent to the US Air Force's [[List of United States Air Force special operations squadrons#Special Tactics Squadrons|Special Tactics Squadron]] units.<ref name="Air Force ISPR">{{cite AV media |date=18 May 2010 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctYcz2bk-V0 |title=S.S.W -Special Service Wing of Pakistan Air Force |publisher=Pakistan Defence |via=[[YouTube]] |access-date=24 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308205001/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctYcz2bk-V0 |archive-date=8 March 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref> Following the secretive tradition of its counterparts in other services, the actual number of its serving personnel is kept classified.