It was disbanded following its demotion to an independent district and eventual merge with Northern Command to form the North-western Army.

The Command HQ is located at Chandimandir, Haryana, about 5 km east of Chandigarh.

The communal violence of partition necessitated the raising of a new command headquarters to relieve Army Headquarters of the day to day overseeing of operations of the two independent areas in north India.

[6] Initially a division sized force Jammu and Kashmir Division was raised on 5 November 1947 under Maj Gen Kulwant Singh for overseeing operations in Jammu and Kashmir.

[9] Command's Area Of Responsibility (AOR) covers the states of Punjab, Haryana, Delhi and parts of Jammu.