: 431–432 [2] In 1959, the Pakistan Air Force was the first military service that established the Judge Advocate General Department in a response to a need of introducing specialization in the legal field.

: 46 [1] Since the 2015, the General Lawfare Directorate (GLD) of the army has now oversees the legal proceedings of the Judge Advocate General at all levels of command– which is usually head by an active-duty major-general as its director.

[5][6] From 1947–2014, the army JAG was proceeding of its general court-martial which was overseen by the Brigadier.

[8] In spite of the series of lawsuits filed against the army's JAG at the Supreme Court of Pakistan in 2008–10, the military justices and punishments sentenced by the army's JAG is barred from challenging its proceedings in the civilian courts— a clause that protected in the Constitution of Pakistan.

[9] [10] The Director-General of the General Lawfare Directorate works under the Chief of General Staff but report directly to the Chief of Army Staff at the Army GHQ in Rawalpindi, Punjab in Pakistan.