NORTHERN COMMAND The Indian Army’s Northern Command is deployed in and responsible for the security of India’s borders with China and Pakistan in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. The Northern Command with its headquarters located in Udhampur has three major formations viz. the Leh based XIV Corps responsible for the Ladakh region including Kargil-Dras and Siachen Glacier, the Srinagar based XV Corps looking after the sensitive borders of the Kashmir region and XVI Corps located in Nagrota responsible for the Jammu region. Prior to independence, the Northern Command, with its headquarters at Rawalpindi was a formation of the British Indian Army from 1895 to 1942 and then from 1945 to 1947. North Western Army was formed from Northern Command in April 1942, to guard the North West Frontier which includes the districts of Kohat, Peshawar, Rawalpindi, Baluchistan and Waziristan. North Western Army reverted to the title Northern Command in November 1945. Lieutenant Ge
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