The article analyzes the specificities of women`s position and their role in the military forces of Pakistan. Apart from it, the reasons of their joining the armed services are also regarded. The armed forces are extremely popular structure in Pakistan due to its historical role. For the last two decades the amount of women in the armed forces of Pakistan is steadily increasing. This tendency was caused by occurred all over the world new ways of fighting wars and the role of women in them. At the same time, the necessity of reaching military parity with India in the amount of active military personnel also played a major role in this process. Due to these factors nowadays Pakistan ranks the leading place in the Muslim world by the numbers of women enlisted in the armed services. This process contributes a lot to the changes in the conservative views on general position of Pakistani women. However, it is difficult to state that Pakistani women join the military forces in large quantities because even today the ethnic factor and different interpretation of the provisions of Islam in every province of Pakistan remains very important in outlining the rights of women. Conditions in the provinces of Punjab and Sindh are more appropriate for women to choose their destiny and desired occupation while the society of such provinces as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan and especially tribal areas still remains quite conservative. Furthermore, women are allowed to fulfill combatant functions only in air forces while in other branches of the armed services their functions are reduced to auxiliary ones.