XXXI Corps (Pakistan)

The XXXI Corps is an active military administrative corps of is one of the Pakistan Army. Commonly known as 10th Corps, it is currently assigned to active corps Punjab Province. The corps is currently the major part of Southern Military Command of Pakistan Defence Forces. Its garrison are currently located in Bahawalpur, Punjab Province.

History
The corps was raised in the end of 1980's and took over the assets of formerly II Corps, which is currently based in Multan. Now, it has under it more than 3 full-sized division and is responsible for the southern Punjab desert zone.

In 1988, when the C-130 Hercules plane of President General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq crashed near Bahawalpur, he was visiting Bahawalpur corps along with the top of the military brass.

List of commanders

 * 1) Lt Gen Mohammad Shafiq, March 1988 – April 1991
 * 2) Lt Gen Shamim Alam Khan, April 1991 – August 1991
 * 3) Lt Gen Muhammad Akram Khan, August 1991 – May 1993
 * 4) Lt Gen Iftikhar Ali Khan, June 1993 – January 1996
 * 5) Lt Gen Khalid Nawaz Malik, January 1996 – May 1997
 * 6) Lt Gen Muzaffar Usmani, May 1997 – October 1998
 * 7) Lt Gen Tahir Ali Qureshi, October 1998 – August 2000
 * 8) Lt Gen Munir Hafiez, August 2000 – October 2001
 * 9) Lt Gen Shahid Hamid, October 2001 – September 2003
 * 10) Lt Gen Syed Parwez Shahid, September 2003 – May 2005
 * 11) Lt Gen Imtiaz Hussain, May 2005 – April 2007
 * 12) Lt Gen Raza Mohammad Khan, April 2007 – October 2008
 * 13) Lt Gen Muhammad Yousaf, October 2008 – October 2009
 * 14) Lt Gen Naeem Khalid Lodhi, October 2009 – March 2011
 * 15) Lt Gen Muhammad Haroon Aslam, March 2011 – January 2013
 * 16) Lt Gen Zubair Mahmood Hayat, January 2013 – present

Order of battle
Its present order of battle is as follows:


 * HQ XXXI Corps, Bahawalpur
 * 26th Mechanized Division, Bahawalpur
 * 35th Infantry Division, Bahawalpur