List of Commander in Chief of Pakistan Air Force
Employs : 65,000 full-time
Aircrafts : 1000 allmost
Headquarters : Air Headquarters (AHQ), located at Islamabad.
Commander in Chief : Sohail Aman.
In 1947, the British left sub-continent after dividing it into two sovereign states of India and Pakistan. Pakistan Air Force (PAF) was born immediately. The Pakistan Air Force PAF is the aerial warfare branch of the Pakistan Armed Forces, primarily tasked with the aerial defence of Pakistan with a secondary role of providing air support to the Pakistan Army and the Pakistan Navy. The PAF also has a tertiary role of providing strategic air transport and logistics capability to Pakistan. Its primary mandate and mission is “to provide, in synergy with other inter-services, the most efficient, assured and cost effective aerial Defence of Pakistan.
The PAF employs approximately 65,000 full-time personnel (including approximately 3,000 pilots) and currently operates 1,032 aircraft.
| S.NO | Name. | Appointment Date | Left Office |
| 01 | Allan Perry-Keene | August 15, 1947 | February 17, 1949 |
| -02 | Richard Atcherley | February 18, 1949 | May 6, 1951 |
| 03 | Leslie William Cannon | May 7, 1951 | June 19, 1955 |
| 04 | Arthur McDonald | June 20, 1955 | July 22, 1957 |
| 05 | Asghar Khan | July 23, 1957 | July 22, 1965 |
| 06 | Noor Khan | July 23, 1965 | August 31, 1969 |
| 07 | Abdul Rahim Khan | September 1, 1969 | March 2, 1972 |
| 08 | Zafar Chaudhry | March 3, 1972 | April 15, 1974 |
| 09 | Zulfiqar Ali Khan | April 16, 1974 | July 22, 1978 |
| 10 | Anwar Shamim | July 23, 1978 | March 5, 1985 |
| 11 | Jamal A. Khan | March 6, 1985 | March 8, 1988 |
| 12 | Hakeemullah | March 9, 1988 | March 9, 1991 |
| 13 | Farooq Feroze Khan | March 9, 1991 | November 8, 1994 |
| 14 | Abbas Khattak | November 8, 1994 | November 7, 1997 |
| 15 | Parvaiz Mehdi Qureshi | November 7, 1997 | November 20, 2000 |
| 16 | Mushaf Ali Mir | November 20, 2000 | February 20, 2003 |
| 17 | Kaleem Saadat | March 18, 2003 | March 18, 2006 |
| 18 | Tanvir Mahmood Ahmed | March 18, 2006 | March 18, 2009 |
| 19 | Rao Qamar Suleman | March 19, 2009 | March 19, 2012 |
| 20 | Tahir Rafique Butt | March 19, 2012 | March 19, 2015 |
| 21 | Sohail Aman | March 19, 2015 | Present |
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