Brig amir gulistan janjua tanveer
Janjua - Died on the frontline and honoured as a National Hero....
Brig Amir Gulistan Janjua, former Governor of the North-West Frontier Province · Lieutenant General (retd) Rao Farman Ali Khan · General Ahsan Saleem Hyat.
Guides Cavalry
Not to be confused with Guides Regiment or Corps of Guides.
Military unit
The Guides Cavalry (Frontier Force) is an armoured regiment of the Pakistan Army which was raised in 1846 as The Corps of Guides.
During more than a hundred and fifty years of military service, the regiment has earned the reputation of one of the most renowned military units in the world.
History
The Corps of Guides was raised at Peshawar on 14 December 1846 by Lieutenant Harry Burnett Lumsden on the orders of Sir Henry Lawrence, the British Resident at Lahore, capital of the enfeebled Sikh Empire.
Initially composed of a troop of cavalry and two companies of infantry mounted on camels, the Guides were organized as a highly mobile force. The corps was ordered to recruit,
- Trustworthy men, who could, at a moment's notice, act as guides to troops in the field; men capable, too, of collecting trustworthy intelligence beyond, as well as within, our borders; and, in addition to all t