Frontier Corps

The Frontier Corps (Urdu: سرحد واہنی, reporting name: FC) are a group of four paramilitary forces of Pakistan, operating in the provinces of Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, to maintain law and order while overseeing the country's borders with Afghanistan and Iran.

Each Corps is headed by a seconded inspector general, who is a Pakistan Army officer of at least major-general rank, although the force itself is officially under the jurisdiction of the Interior Ministry.

105 billion,[5] the task of the Frontier Corps is to help local law enforcement, and to carry out border patrol, counter-insurgency, counter-terrorism and anti-smuggling operations.

[2] In the late 1990s, the Frontier Corps played an important role in eliminating opium poppy cultivation from Dir District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

The United States provided more than US$7 billion in military aid to Pakistan from 2002 to 2007, most of which was used to equip the Frontier Corps because it is in the front line of the fight against the Islamist insurgents.

announced will go a long way in seeing that the Frontier Corps stay at the height of their professional abilities due to new equipment and training.

[8] During times of difficulties, the government occasionally gives the FC the power to arrest and detain suspects such as in late 2012 in Balochistan[9] and early 2013 in Quetta by orders from the Prime Minister of Pakistan.

In January 2022 during a press briefing Pakistan military spokesperson General Babar Iftikhar said, as a part of Pakistan's Western border management, 67 new wings have been established for the FC Balochistan and FC Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to strengthen border security and formation of the six more wings is in process.

Tochi Scouts in operations against Faqir Ipi in the 1930s
A member of the Khyber Rifles circa 1948
Personnel from FC KPK marching on Pakistan Day
US DEA Administrator Karen P. Tandy with senior Frontier Corps Balochistan officials and Pakistani Government officials right in front of the Afghan-Pakistani border.