Armed Forces Division

The Armed Forces Division is managing the transition from domestic Aid to Civil Power deployments back to a traditional peacetime posture while balancing requirements for political stability.

AFD was raised in December 1978 as Commander-in-Chief's Secretariat under MoD; renamed Supreme Command Headquarters November 1986; given division status and renamed again 1989; renamed Armed Forces Division on shift to parliamentary system 1991; integrated into PMO October 1994. The PSO holds the rank of lieutenant general and is equivalent to a senior secretary of the Government of Bangladesh. AFD's annual budget of Tk 47 crore is a narrow administrative allocation; operational/procurement budgets for the three services (Tk 38,728 crore) are administered under MoD. The current_head and head_since reflect the April 6, 2026 Cabinet Division notification giving Shamsul Islam additional charge; prior to that date the AFD lacked a designated civilian head after the February 17 new government formation. The budget figure Tk 47 crore = BDT 470,000,000 (1 crore = 10,000,000) sourced from MoF budget portal and corroborated by bdmilitary.com. UN peacekeeping: 6,359 personnel in 9 active missions as of AFD website data (cross-checked against worldpopulationreview.com April 2026 figure of 5,568 -- discrepancy likely reflects AFD's tri-service total vs UN DPO Army-only count; AFD figure used as primary source for tri-service total). staff_count not publicly disclosed at sanctioned-post level.