List of serving air marshals of the Pakistan Air Force

In the Pakistan Air Force, Air Marshalls are equivalent to general officers of the army. At present, the Air Force has 1 Air Chief Marshal (ACM), 9 Air Marshals (AM) and 40 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-Imtiaz (Military) Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military) Turkish Legion of Merit Order of King Abdulaziz	18 March 2025[1]

List of active air marshals

#	Name	Branch	Position	Decorations	Year of Retirement
1	Hamid Rashid Randhawa	GD(P)	Vice Chief of the Air Staff (VCAS), AHQ, Islamabad	Hilal-e-Imtiaz (Military) Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military)	2025
2	Waqas Ahmed Sulehri	GD(P)	Deputy Chief of the Air Staff, PAF Unmanned Force (DCAS-PUF), AHQ, Islamabad	Hilal-e-Imtiaz (Military) Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military)	2025
3	Tariq Zia	GD(P)	Deputy Chief of the Air Staff, Training (DCAS-T), AHQ, Islamabad	Hilal-e-Imtiaz (Military) Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military)	2027
4	Ghulam Abbas Ghumman	GD(P)	Chief Project Director, JF-17 (CPD JF-17), AHQ, Islamabad	Hilal-e-Imtiaz (Military) Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Basalat	2027
5	S. Fauad Masud Hatmi	GD(P)	Inspector General, Pakistan Air Force (IG PAF), AHQ, Islamabad	Hilal-e-Imtiaz (Military) Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Basalat	2028
6	Zaffar Aslam	GD(P)	Deputy Chief of the Air Staff, National Aerospace Science and Technology Park (DCAS-NASTP), AHQ, Islamabad	Hilal-e-Imtiaz (Military) Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Sitara-e-Basalat Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military)	2028
7	Muhammad Sarfraz	GD(P)	Deputy Chief of the Air Staff, Projects (DCAS-Proj), AHQ, Islamabad	Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Basalat	2028
8	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
9	Shakil Ghazanfar	GD(P)	Deputy Chief of the Air Staff, Personnel (DCAS-P), AHQ, Islamabad	Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military)	2028

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) Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military)	2025
3	Shahid Mansoor Jehangiri	GD(P)	Deputy Chief of the Air Staff, Air Defence (DCAS-AD), AHQ, Islamabad	Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military)	2025
4	Kashif Qamar	GD(P)	Deputy Chief of the Air Staff, Support (DCAS-S), AHQ, Islamabad	Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military)	2025
5	Aamir Shahzad	GD(P)	Air Officer Commanding, Southern Air Command (AOC SAC), Karachi	Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Sitara-e-Basalat	2025
6	Zubair Hassan Khan	GD(P)	Director General, Operations, National Aerospace Science and Technology Park (DG Operations, NASTP), Rawalpindi	Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military)	2025
7	Dr. Shakeel Safdar	Engg	Director General, Pakistan Air Force Airworthiness Certification Authority (DG PACA), AHQ, Islamabad	Hilal-e-Imtiaz (Military) Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military)	2025
8	Muhammad Ehsan Ul Haq	GD(P)	Director General, Air Intelligence (DG AI) & Commander, Air Force Strategic Command (Comdr. AFSC), AHQ, Islamabad	Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military)	2025
9	Hussain Ahmed Siddiqui	GD(P)	Director General, Joint Logistics (DG Joint Log), JS HQ, Chaklala	Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military)	2025
10	Zaeem Afzal	GD(P)	Deputy Chief Project Director, JF-17 (Deputy CPD, JF-17), AHQ, Islamabad	Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military)	2025
11	Tahir Mehmood	AD	Air Officer Commanding, Air Defence Command (AOC ADC), Rawalpindi	Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Basalat	2026
12	Mohsin Mahmood	Engg	Director General, Development, National Aerospace Science and Technology Park (DG Development, NASTP), Rawalpindi	Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military)	2026
13	Farooq Zamir Afridi	GD(P)	Director General, Security (DG Security), AHQ, Islamabad	Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military)	2026
14	Aurangzeb Ahmed	GD(P)	Deputy Chief of the Air Staff, Operations (DCAS-O), AHQ, Islamabad	Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military)	2026
15	Taimur Iqbal	GD(P)	Additional Director General, Civil Aviation Authority (ADG CAA), Karachi	Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military)	2026
16	Hakim Raza	GD(P)	Chairman, Pakistan Aeronautical Complex Board (Chairman PACB), Kamra	Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military)	2026
17	Tariq Mahmood Ghazi	GD(P)	Air Officer Commanding, Central Air Command (AOC CAC), Lahore	Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military)	2026
18	Imran Qadir	GD (P)	Advisor (Operations, Audit & Evaluation Cell) to Chief of the Air Staff, AHQ, Islamabad	Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military)	2027
19	Ghazanfar Latif	GD (P)	Air Officer Commanding, Pakistan Air Force Academy Asghar Khan (AOC PAF Academy Asghar Khan), Risalpur	Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Sitara-e-Basalat	2027
20	Shahryar Khan	GD (P)	Director General, Joint Information and Intelligence (DG JI & I), JS HQ, Rawalpindi	Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military)	2027
21	Nauman Waheed	GD (P)	Director General, Air Operations (DG AO), AHQ, Islamabad	Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military)	2027
22	Mehr Yar Saqib Niazi	Engg	Director, Precision Engineering Complex (Dir. PEC), PIA, Karachi	Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military)	2027
23	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
24	Ghulam Shabbir	Engg	Director General, Air Weapon Complex (DG AWC), Wah	Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military)	2027
25	Dr. 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
26	Farhan Akhtar	AD	Director General, Defence Purchase, Ministry of Defence Production (DG DP, MoDP), Rawalpindi	Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military)	2028
27	Ijaz Yousaf	AD		Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military)	2028
28	Rashid Habib	GD(P)	President, Air War College Institute (President AWCI), Karachi	Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military)	2028
29	Imran Saddozai	GD(P)	Air Officer Commanding, PAF Airmen Academy (AOC PAA), Korangi, Karachi	Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military)	2028
30	Taimur Yousaf	GD(P)	Air Officer Commanding, Western Air Command (AOC WAC), Quetta	Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military)	2028
31	Aamir Munir	GD(P)	Chief Instructor, Allied Officers Division (CI AOD), National Defence University (NDU), Islamabad	Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military)	2028
32	Ahmad Juniad	Engg	Director General, Aerospace Engineering, (DG AE), AHQ Islamabad	Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military)	2028
33	Usman Riaz	Engg	Advisor (Engineering) to Chief of the Air Staff, AHQ, Islamabad	Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military)	2028
34	Burhan Aziz	Engg	Director General, Avionics & Weapon Engineering, (DG Av. & WE), AHQ Islamabad	Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military)	2028
35	Sajjad Noori	GD(P)	Air Officer Commanding, Northern Air Command (AOC NAC), Peshawar	Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military)	2028
36	Asim Rana	GD(P)	Director General, Warfare & Public Relations (DG W & PR), AHQ, Islamabad	Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military)	2028
37	Syed Inam Ullah	GD(P)	Director General, Welfare & Rehabilitation (DG W & R), AHQ, Islamabad	Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military)	2028
38	Zeeshan Saeed	GD(P)	Chief Project Director, Phoenix (CPD Phoenix), AHQ, Islamabad	Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military)	2028
39	Sohail Akbar	GD(P)	Director General, Administration (DG Admin), AHQ, Islamabad	Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military)	2028
40	Nasir Jamal Khattak	GD (P)	Additional Secretary-II (Air Force), Ministry of Defence, (AS-II MoD), Rawalpindi	Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-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

1. 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)