List of serving air marshals of the Pakistan Air Force
In the Pakistan Air Force, Air Marshals are equivalent to general officers of the army. At present, the Air Force has 1 Air Chief Marshal (ACM), 6 Air Marshals (AM) and 36 Air Vice Marshals (AVM).
List of active air chief marshals
| Name | Branch | Position | Decorations | Date of Retirement |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zaheer Ahmed Baber Sidhu | GD(P) | Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), AHQ, Islamabad | Nishan-e-Imtiaz (Military) Hilal-e-Jurat Hilal-e-Imtiaz (Military) Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military) Turkish Legion of Merit Order of King Abdulaziz |
18 March 2028[1] |
List of active air marshals
| # | Name | Branch | Position | Decorations | Year of Retirement |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zaffar Aslam | GD(P) | Vice Chief of the Air Staff, (VCAS) | Hilal-e-Imtiaz (Military)
Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) |
2028 |
| 2 | S Fauad Masud Hatmi | GD(P) | Deputy Chief of the Air Staff, Inspection & Evaluation (DCAS-I & E), AHQ, Islamabad | Hilal-e-Imtiaz (Military) Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Basalat |
2028 |
| 3 | Muhammad Sarfraz | GD(P) | Deputy Chief of the Air Staff, Air Defence (DCAS-AD), AHQ, Islamabad | Hilal-e-Imtiaz (Military) Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Basalat |
2028 |
| 4 | Kazim Hammad | GD(P) | Deputy Chief of the Air Staff, Administration (DCAS-A), AHQ, Islamabad | Hilal-e-Imtiaz (Military) Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military) |
2028 |
| 5 | Shakil Ghazanfar | GD(P) | Deputy Chief of the Air Staff, Personnel (DCAS-P), AHQ, Islamabad | Hilal-e-Imtiaz (Military) Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military) |
2028 |
| 6 | Kashif Qamar | GD(P) | Deputy Chief of the Air Staff NASTP,Deputy President, NASTP Advisory Board, AHQ, Islamabad | Hilal-e-Imtiaz (Military) | 2029 |
List of active air vice marshals
| # | Name | Branch | Position | Decoration | Year of Retirement |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Khalid Mehmood | GD(P) | Director General, Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (DG C4I), AHQ, Islamabad | Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military) | 2025 |
| 2 | Salman Abbas Shah | Engg | Deputy Chief of the Air Staff, Engineering (DCAS-E), AHQ, Islamabad | Hilal-e-Imtiaz (Military) | 2025 |
| 3 | Shahid Mansoor Jehangiri | GD(P) | Deputy Chief of the Air Staff, Air Defence (DCAS-AD), AHQ, Islamabad | Hilal-e-Imtiaz (Military) | 2025 |
| 4 | Aamir Shahzad | GD(P) | Deputy Chief of the Air Staff, Training (DCAS-T), AHQ, Islamabad | Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) | 2025 |
| 5 | Shakeel Safdar | Engg | Director General, Pakistan Air Force Airworthiness Certification Authority (DG PACA), AHQ, Islamabad | Hilal-e-Imtiaz (Military) | 2025 |
| 6 | Muhammad Ehsan Ul Haq | GD(P) | Deputy Chief of the Air Staff, Operations (DCAS-Ops), AHQ, Islamabad | Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) | 2025 |
| 7 | Zaeem Afzal | GD(P) | Deputy Chief of the Air Staff, PFX (DCAS-PFX), AHQ, Islamabad | Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military) |
2025 |
| 8 | Tahir Mehmood | AD | Air Officer Commanding, Air Defence Command (AOC ADC), Rawalpindi | Hilal-e-Imtiaz (Military)
Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) |
2026 |
| 9 | Mohsin Mahmood | Engg | Director General, Development, National Aerospace Science and Technology Park (DG Development, NASTP), Rawalpindi | Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) | 2026 |
| 10 | Nasir Jamal Khattak | GD(P) | Director General, Security (DG Security), AHQ, Islamabad | Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military) |
2028 |
| 11 | Aurangzeb Ahmed | GD(P) | Commander, Air Force Strategic Command (Comdr. AFSC), AHQ, Islamabad | Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military) |
2026 |
| 12 | Taimur Iqbal | GD(P) | Air Officer Commanding, Northern Air Command (AOC NAC), Peshawar | Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military) |
2026 |
| 13 | Hakim Raza | GD(P) | Chairman, Pakistan Aeronautical Complex Board (Chairman PACB), Kamra | Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military) |
2026 |
| 14 | Tariq Mahmood Ghazi | GD(P) | Director General, Training (DG Trg), AHQ, Islamabad | Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) | 2026 |
| 15 | Imran Qadir | GD (P) | Deputy Chief of the Air Staff, Support (DCAS-Supp), AHQ, Islamabad | Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) | 2027 |
| 16 | Shahryar Khan | GD (P) | Air Officer Commanding, Pakistan Air Force Academy Asghar Khan (AOC PAF Academy Asghar Khan), Risalpur | Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military) |
2027 |
| 17 | Mehr Yar Saqib Niazi | Engg | Director, Precision Engineering Complex (Dir. PEC), PIA, Karachi | Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military) |
2027 |
| 18 | Muhammad Asif Aslam | Engg | Director General, NUTECH Office of Research, Industrialization, Internationalization and Commercialization (DG NORIIC), Islamabad | Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military) |
2027 |
| 19 | Ghulam Shabbir | Engg | Director General, Air Weapon Complex (DG AWC), Wah | Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military) |
2027 |
| 20 | Liaquat Ullah Iqbal | GD (P) | Chief Project Director & Chief Executive Officer, National Aerospace Science & Technology Park (CPD & CEO NASTP), Rawalpindi | Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) | 2027 |
| 21 | Farhan Akhtar | AD | Director General, Defence Purchase, Ministry of Defence Production (DG DP, MoDP), Rawalpindi | Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military) |
2028 |
| 22 | Ijaz Yousaf | AD | Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military) |
2028 | |
| 23 | Rashid Habib | GD(P) | President, Air War College Institute (President AWCI), Karachi | Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military) |
2028 |
| 24 | Imran Saddozai | GD(P) | Air Officer Commanding, Southern Air Command (AOC SAC), Karachi | Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) | 2028 |
| 25 | Taimur Yousaf | GD(P) | Director General, Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (DG C4I), AHQ, Islamabad | Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military) |
2028 |
| 26 | Aamir Munir | GD(P) | Chief Instructor, Allied Officers Division (CI AOD), National Defence University (NDU), Islamabad | Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) | 2028 |
| 27 | Ahmad Juniad | Engg | Director General, Aerospace Engineering, (DG AE), AHQ Islamabad | Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military) |
2028 |
| 28 | Usman Riaz | Engg | Director General, Electronics, National Aerospace Science and Technology Park (DG Electronics, NASTP), Rawalpindi | Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) | 2028 |
| 29 | Burhan Aziz | Engg | Advisor (Technical) to Chief of the Air Staff, AHQ, Islamabad | Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) | 2028 |
| 30 | Sajjad Noori | GD(P) | Director General, Air Operations (DG AO), AHQ, Islamabad | Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military) |
2028 |
| 31 | Asim Rana | GD(P) | Air Officer Commanding, Central Air Command (AOC CAC), Lahore | Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military) |
2028 |
| 32 | Syed Inam Ullah | GD(P) | Director General, Welfare & Rehabilitation (DG W & R), AHQ, Islamabad | Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military) |
2028 |
| 33 | Zeeshan Saeed | GD(P) | Director General, Pakistan Airports Authority (DG PAA), Karachi | Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military) |
2028 |
| 34 | Ahsan Yousaf | GD(P) | Director General Air Intelligence (DG AI), AHQ , Islamabad | Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military) |
2028 |
| 35 | --- | GD (P) | Additional Secretary-II (Air Force), Ministry of Defence, (AS-II MoD), Rawalpindi | Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military) |
2028 |
| 36 | Muhammad Owais Akram | Engg | Deputy Chairman Pakistan Aeronautical Complex, PAC Kamra | Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) | 2028 |
See also
- Federal Secretary
- Grade 22
- List of serving Generals of the Pakistan Army
- List of serving Admirals of the Pakistan Navy
References
- ^ Haider, Mateen (18 March 2024). "PM gives one-year extension to PAF chief Zaheer Babar". The Nation. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
External links
- Pakistan Air Force (Official website)