
Command Laboratory - Northern Command
Command Laboratory - Northern Command" This was the best Armed Forces laboratory, which the newly independent Pakistan inherited from British India in 1947. Lt Col Sarup Narayan was the commanding officer of this laboratory at the time of independence. After independence Pakistan Army Medical Corps was established. Command Laboratory Northern Command, India was raised to the status of Central Military Pathological laboratory (CMPL) to serve as the central diagnostic and reference laboratory for the medical units of all the three services. Production of reagents and bio-products on a limited scale, was also initiated. On 02 Oct 1947, Col (later Maj Gen) M.Akram was appointed as Commanding Officer of CMPL.