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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), 9 Air Marshals (AM) and 40 Air Vice Marshals (AVM).
| 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] |
| # | 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) | 2027 |
| 5 | S. Fauad Masud Hatmi | GD(P) | Inspector General, Pakistan Air Force (IG PAF), AHQ, Islamabad | Hilal-e-Imtiaz (Military) | 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) | 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 |
| # | 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 | 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)  | 2025 |
| 6 | Zubair Hassan Khan | GD(P) | Director General, Operations, National Aerospace Science and Technology Park (DG Operations, NASTP), Rawalpindi | Sitara-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) | 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) | 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) | Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) | 2027 | |
| 20 | 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 |
| 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 |
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