The Elite Force was created on the order of the then Punjab Chief Minister Shabaz Sarhif in 1997–1998.n 2004, more funds were allocated for its expansion, and 5000 new personnel were inducted. New checkpoints for curbing street crime were created across Punjab and manned by the Elite Force.[5] Their work drew attention in the wake of the 2009 attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore, when retired general Pervez Musharraf criticized security around the team. Musharraf remarked that
If this was the elite force I would expect them to have shot down those people who attacked them. The reaction, their training should be on a level that if anyone shoots toward the company they are guarding, in less than three seconds they should shoot the man down.