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Pakistan Military Academy (PMA) is the Military Academy of Pakistan Army. It is located at Kakul near Abbottabad in NWFP, Pakistan. The Pakistan Military Academy is similar in function to Sandhurst, Saint-Cyr or West Point and provides training to the officers of Pakistan Army. The academy has three training battalions and twelve companies. Due to the very high training standards at PMA, cadets of more than 34 countries come here every year as part of their military training schedules. The location, standard of training, and leadership development is unparalleled. Over 1500 cadets are trained at PMA every year, in a variety of different courses.

Their mission is to foster and inculcate those attributes in a Gentleman Cadet (GC) which will ensure his continuous and progressive development as a regular officer in the Pakistan Army. To develop future officers for the Pakistan Army by training the Gentleman Cadets in a way that they can make decisions as and when required by the military profession.

At PMA potential officers undergo a series of grueling training programs designed to inculcate the attributes and qualities essential for a career in the Pakistani armed forces. The Cadet's personality is broken down and then rebuilt to suit requirements of the Pakistan army