Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, representing the 2nd most populous country (200 plus millions) of the Commonwealth only after India (2.1 billion) and ahead of Nigeria (170 million) and Bangladesh (160 million), with the 2nd largest highly professional and well equipped standing army and the 3rd CW Nuclear Power out of the only 7 world nuclear powers with its delivery system to hurl its nukes anywhere across the globe was conspicuous by his absence from the front rows!!

'We are the sixth or seventh-largest country in the world and have the seventh-largest standing army in the world,' Mr Ismail told Financial Times.

'We are the sixth or seventh-largest country in the world, and have the seventh-largest standing army in the world,' Mr Ismail said in an interview in his office in Islamabad.

During those years, the original duo of Joey Burns and John Convertino has grown to a standing army of six (including two trumpeters), and their sound has evolved into a sort of indie rock-mariachi mashup.

The killings, therefore, are not acts of aggrieved herdsmen, but the handiwork of well-trained, well-paid, well-armed gangs/militia terrorists that act as a standing army of invasion, sponsored by elites to wage war across Nigeria, particularly Benue State.

House of Representatives (after a House committee found fraud in his election), and in a downward spiral when Washington unexpectedly placed him in command of the country's new standing army, the Legion of the United States.

Although the rebellion in both regionsA wasA initially successful, the intervention of Turkish standing army led to the dissolution of the rebel detachments.

But, it said, the Ministry of Defence had failed to hit the "historically low" manpower target for the standing Army, while there were "serious doubts" about it recruiting the necessary reservists by the target date of 2019.

It fields the world's second-biggest standing army, after China.

The Praetorian Guard of ancient Rome was gradually transformed from a citizen police force into an oppressive standing army. Are America's local police following that path?

Pakistan is the 6th largest country in the world in terms of population and has the world's 5th largest standing army. The country's armed forces are not only deployed on the national borders, both in the east (India) and the west (Afghanistan/Taliban) but are also fighting a battle with India on the world's highest battlefield (Siachin).

This would not be done because the guard was experiencing a shortage of colonels -- 57 was already an absurdly high number for Cyprus' tiny standing army -- but for industrial relations considerations.

The presence of a standing army was one of the defining features of England during the Interregnum, yet most historical scholarship on the topic is confined to moments when the army intervened in politics.