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Brig Ray

The points I brought up about the Pakistani Frontier Corps was drawn from a number of random, miscellaneous readings. Wikipedia is a good start, but it is not very thorough and quite open to revisionism.

Frontier Corps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Khyber Rifles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Here you will notice the obvious Gorkha Khukri, mistakenly attributed as an Afghan/Khyber knife).

Unfortunately the excellent regiments.org has now disappeared, and with it some very good works and references as well. John Gaylor(?) I believe had published a few regimental sketches on post-Independence Pak forces, including components of the Frontier Corps, and they were all referenced there. Maybe some Pakistani enthusiasts have archived it elsewhere? I link it here if I come across any.

On the print media side, I have borrowed liberally and mainly from Philip Mason's A Matter of Honour: An Account of the Indian Army, Its Officers and Men, as well as Maj Gen. MacMunn's Army of India in providing historic perspective. But perhaps most the points most relevant to this topic from history comes from The army in India and the development of frontier warfare, 1849-1947 by T.R. Moreman. Then there are random anecdotes I have come across in various publications about Pakistan and Afghanistan from post-Independence travelers, for whom a visit to the Khyber Rifles' last post is still a must.