Air Headquarters (Pakistan)
Air Headquarters is the Headquarters of Pakistan Air Force, located in Islamabad. Initially it was established at Peshawar 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, Rawalpindi to Islamabad. During the construction of the headquarter's building at Islamabad the headquarters directorates were housed at PAF base Chaklala.
Command Structure
There are nine branches at AHQ each commanded by Air marshal rank officer, and several directorates headed by Air vice-marshal rank officers.1.Chief of Air Staff Secretariat
- Advisor to Chief of the Air Staff
- Advisor to Chief of the Air Staff, AHQ
- Advisor to Chief of the Air Staff
- Director General, Air Intelligence
- Air Force Strategic Command
- Director General, Security
- Inspector General Air Force
- Managing Director, Mirage Rebuild Factory, PAC, Kamra
- Managing Director, Aircraft Rebuild Factory, Kamra
- Managing Director, Avionics Production Factory, Kamra
- Managing Director, Aircraft Manufacturing Factory, Kamra
- Chairman, Pakistan Aeronautical Complex Board, Kamra
- Air Officer Commanding, PAF Airmen Academy Korangi Creek, Karachi
- Director General, Training
- Chief Instructor, Allied Officers Division, National Defence University
- President, PAF [Air War College|Air War College] Institute
- Principal, School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, NUST
- Air Officer Commanding, Pakistan Air Force Academy Asghar Khan
- Director General, Aerospace Engineering
- Director, Precision Engineering Complex
- Director General, Pakistan Air Force Airworthiness Certification Authority
- Principal, School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, NUST
- Director General, NUTECH Office of Research, Industrialization, Internationalization and Commercialization
- Director General, Warfare & Strategy
- Director General, Air Operations
- Director General, Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence
- Air Officer Commanding, Air Defence Command
- Director General, Administration
- Director General, Operations, National Aerospace Science and Technology Park
- Director General, Development, National Aerospace Science and Technology Park
- Chief Project Director & Chief Executive Officer, National Aerospace Science & Technology Park
- Deputy Chief Project Director JF-17
12. Deputy Chief of Air Staff- Projects
- Director General, Projects
- Director General, Personnel
- Director General, Welfare & Rehabilitation,