Have you completed your Matric examination and would like to join the Pakistan army? Here is how you should go about it:

Qualification

For you to be eligible for the position you need to meet a number of qualifications. For example, you should be unmarried, have a minimum height of 165.5 cm, be physically fit, and have the Matric certificate and Matric exhaustive marks sheet.

If you are 18 years old you should have your automated national identity card. If you are below the age of 18 years you should have the identity card of your guardian.

How to apply

You can apply for the position either online or by sending an application letter through post office to the ISSB selection board. One your application has gone through, you will be subjected to a written test that is aimed at determining your intelligence.

Once you are through with the written test you have to undergo a physical test aimed at determining your fitness level. Some of the exercises that you need to engage in include: 1.6 km run, pushups, chin ups, sit ups, and ditch passage.

To qualify you need to do all these exercises within a given time frame. For example, you need to complete 15 pushups within 2 minutes. If you can’t do this you will be declared unqualified.

What can make you ineligible for the army position?

There are many reasons that can disqualify you for the position. The most common reasons are:

• If you have been rejected twice by ISSB/NHQ/AHQ selection board
• If you have been permanently declared unfit by the appeal medical board
• If you have been declared unfit by the armed forces hospital
• If you have been declared unfit due to Hepatitis B or C
• If you have withdrawn from any academy/training institution of the armed forces
• If you have been convicted in a court of law
• Withdrawn from any bonded armed forces college/institution as a result of disciplinary issues.

What happens after qualifying?

One you have qualified to join the army, you will go to the Pakistan military academy. The academy is located in Abbottabad and here you will undergo combat training. In addition to this you will also learn how to be courageous, disciplined, and patriotic to the republic of Pakistan.

If you would like to undertake academic courses you can do so in the academy. Here you can pursue academic courses such as bachelors of military arts and sciences.

Conclusion

If you have always wanted to be in the army you should go online and send your application.