Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A 1973, gwamnatin Bhutto ta kori gwamnatin jihar a Balochistan wanda ya haifar da wani yunkuri na rabuwa, wanda ya haifar da jerin ayyukan soja a lardin mafi girma na kasar da ya ƙare a 1977. Tare da taimakon soja da aka samu daga Iran gami da canja wurin Bell AH-1 Cobra zuwa Rundunar Sojojin Sama, rikicin ya ƙare tare da gwamnatin Pakistan da ke ba da gafara ga masu raba gardama a cikin 1980s. A kan batun rikicin Baloch, sojojin Pakistan sun ci gaba da shiga cikin yakin basasa na Oman a cikin goyon bayan gwamnatin Oman har sai 'yan tawaye sun ci nasara a shekarar 1979. Kwamitin Binciken Yaƙin ya lura da rashin babban dabarun haɗin gwiwa tsakanin rassa huɗu na sojoji a lokacin yakin farko
, na biyu, da na uku yaƙe-yaƙe tare da Indiya, suna ba da shawarar kafa Kwamitin Haɗin Ma'aikata don kula da hanyoyin sadarwa na soja tsakanin tsakanin sabis da gwamnatin tarayya, wanda za a jagoranci ta hanyar shugaban da aka nada shugaban shugabannin haɗin gwiwa a matsayin babban mai ba da shawara na soja na gwamnati. A shekara ta 1976, an nada shugaban farko na shugabannin hadin gwiwa daga rundunar soji tare da Janar Muhammad Shariff wanda ya karbi shugabanci, amma ya yi murabus shekara guda bayan haka. A shekarar 1975, Firayim Minista Zulfikar Ali Bhutto ya maye gurbin aƙalla manyan janar-janar bakwai na soja don haɓaka Lt-Gen. Zia-ul-Haq zuwa matsayi na taurari huɗu, wanda ya nada shi Shugaban Hafsoshin Sojoji (COAS) duk da shawarwarin sojojin da aka tura wa gwamnatin tarayya.