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This is the list of serving Air Marshals of the Pakistan Air Force. At present, the Air Force has 01 Air Chief Marshal (ACM), 09 Air Marshals (AM) and 40 Air Vice Marshals (AVM).
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This is the list of serving Air Marshals of the Pakistan Air Force. At present, the Air Force has 01 Air Chief Marshal (ACM), 09 Air Marshals (AM) and 40 Air Vice Marshals (AVM).
| Name | Branch | Position | Decorations | Date of Retirement |
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| 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 |
| # | 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) | Chief Executive Officer, Unmanned Systems (CEO Unmanned Systems), ADIC, NASTP Kamra | 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 | 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) | Air Officer Commanding, Pakistan Air Force Academy Asghar Khan (AOC PAF Academy Asghar Khan), Risalpur | Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) | 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 |
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