The Government of Pakistan formed a committee to prepare the groundwork for establishing a National Cadet Corps in 1947.

[5] A 1960 commission on education, set up by the government, recommended creating an Army-controlled directorate to organise the Corps more effectively.

[9] It was officially merged into the National Guard when that force was expanded in 1972 in response to the secession of East Pakistan as the independent country of Bangladesh in 1971.

[10] The recruitment criteria in 1973 were for male college students and staff in good health, who would be subject to military law while they were part of the Corps.

[12] The Corps was disbanded in 2002 by President Pervez Musharraf, although the government was reportedly considering restarting it in the aftermath of the 2014 Peshawar school massacre.