Air Headquarters (AHQ) is the Headquarters of

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, located in

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. Initially it was established at

Peshawar Peshawar is the capital and List of cities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by population, largest city of the Administrative units of Pakistan, Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It is the sixth most populous city of Pakistan, with a district p ...

on 15 August 1947. Later it was moved to Karachi on 1 June 1948 and back to Peshawar in 1960. In 1983 construction of Air headquarters was started at Islamabad after it was decided to have all the armed forces headquarters in the capital city. On 1 August 2005 the headquarters was moved from

Chaklala Chaklala is a major suburban town of Rawalpindi in the Punjab (Pakistan), Punjab province of Pakistan. It covers an area of (8,405 acres). The population of the town is 333,115 according to the 2023 census. Chaklala Cantonment is one of the thre ...

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to Islamabad. During the construction of the headquarter's building at Islamabad the headquarters directorates were housed at

PAF base Chaklala PAF Base Nur Khan (originally founded as RAF Chaklala and formerly known as PAF Station Chaklala and PAF Base Chaklala) is a major Pakistan Air Force airbase located in Chaklala, Rawalpindi, Punjab province. The former Benazir Bhutto Internat ...

Command Structure

There are nine branches at AHQ each commanded by Air marshal rank officer, and several directorates headed by

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rank officers. 1.Chief of Air Staff Secretariat * Advisor (Administration) to Chief of the Air Staff * Advisor (Operations, Audit & Evaluation Cell) to Chief of the Air Staff, AHQ * Advisor (Engineering) to Chief of the Air Staff 2.Vice Chief of the Air Staff Branch, VCAS-Branch * Director General,

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* Air Force Strategic Command * Director General, Security (DG Security) * Inspector General Air Force 3. Chairman,

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Board (Chairman PACB), Kamra. * Managing Director, Mirage Rebuild Factory (MD MRF), PAC, Kamra * Managing Director, Aircraft Rebuild Factory, Kamra * Managing Director, Avionics Production Factory (MD APF), Kamra * Managing Director, Aircraft Manufacturing Factory (MD AMF), Kamra * Chairman,

Board (Chairman PACB), Kamra 4. Deputy Chief of Air Staff Training (DCAS-T) * Air Officer Commanding, PAF Airmen Academy (AOC PAA) Korangi Creek, Karachi * Director General, Training (DG Training) * Chief Instructor, Allied Officers Division (CI AOD), National Defence University (NDU) * President,

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Institute (President AWCI) * Principal, School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (Principal SEECS), NUST * Air Officer Commanding, Pakistan Air Force Academy Asghar Khan (AOC PAF Academy Asghar Khan) 5. Deputy Chief of Air Staff Engineering (DCAS-E) * Director General, Aerospace Engineering * Director, Precision Engineering Complex (Director PEC) * Director General, Pakistan Air Force Airworthiness Certification Authority * Principal, School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (Principal SEECS), NUST * Director General, NUTECH Office of Research, Industrialization, Internationalization and Commercialization (DG NORIIC) 6. Deputy Chief of Air Staff Operations (DCAS-O) * Director General, Warfare & Strategy (DG W & S) * Director General, Air Operations (DG AO) * Director General, Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (DG C4I) 7. Deputy Chief of Air Staff Air Defence (DCAS-AD) * Air Officer Commanding, Air Defence Command (AOC ADC) 8. Deputy Chief of Air Staff Administration (DCAS-A) * Director General, Administration 9. Deputy Chief of Air Staff National Aerospace Science and Technology Park (DCAS-NASTP) * Director General, Operations, National Aerospace Science and Technology Park (DG Operations, NASTP) * Director General, Development, National Aerospace Science and Technology Park (DG Development, NASTP) * Chief Project Director & Chief Executive Officer, National Aerospace Science & Technology Park (CPD & CEO NASTP) 10. Chief Project Director, JF-17, (CPD JF-17). * Deputy Chief Project Director JF-17 (Deputy CPD, JF-17) 11. Deputy Chief of Air Staff-Support (DCAS-Support) 12. Deputy Chief of Air Staff- Projects (DCAS-PJ) * Director General, Projects (DG Projects) 13. Deputy Chief of the Air Staff, Personnel (DCAS-P) * Director General, Personnel (DG Personnel) * Director General, Welfare & Rehabilitation (DG W & R),

References

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Command Structure

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