: 338 [1] Headquartered at the Joint Staff HQ in Chaklala near Rawalpindi,: 388 [1] the strategic command controls the land-based ballistics and cruise missile systems—both nuclear and conventional.

: 240 [1] Its organizational structure is model based on the conventional corps with its operations similar to Regiment of Artillery, and responsible only for the ground-based strategic nuclear deterrence.

: 354 [1] The Army's strategic forces command maintains and controls the employment of the transporter erector launchers, which is a primary ground-based delivery system.

[4] The strategic forces command is distributed among the Pakistan Army Reserves North and South formation, focusing towards its eastern border.

[4] In addition, the Army HQ has missile batteries and support battalions routinely rotated in the country that makes it difficult to exact its permanent size and troops strength.