{"id":9641,"date":"2021-03-19T17:09:08","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T17:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=9641"},"modified":"2021-03-19T17:38:18","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T17:38:18","slug":"air-chief-martial-zaheer-baber-takes-over-command-of-pakistan-air-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/air-chief-martial-zaheer-baber-takes-over-command-of-pakistan-air-force\/","title":{"rendered":"AIR CHIEF MARTIAL ZAHEER BABER TAKES OVER COMMAND OF PAKISTAN AIR FORCE"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"Islamabad; 19 March 2021 – Air Chief Marshal Zaheer Ahmad Baber Sidhu took over the command of Pakistan Air Force\u00a0\u00a0as the 23rd Chief of the Air Staff, in a graceful Change of Command ceremony held at Air Headquarters, Islamabad today.<\/div>\n
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During the ceremony a smartly turned out contingent of Pakistan Air Force presented the guard of honor\u00a0to the outgoing Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Mujahid Anwar Khan. Later on, he decorated Air Marshal Zaheer Ahmad Baber Sidhu with the ranks of Air Chief Marshal and handed him over the \u201cCommand Sword\u201d.<\/div>\n
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To bid farewell to the outgoing Air Chief a four-ship formation of #JF17<\/a> Thunder aircraft presented a farewell fly past over the venue.<\/div>\n
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In his farewell address the outgoing Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Mujahid Anwar Khan said that “Certainly, I cannot think of a greater honour than leading one of the finest air forces of the world.” Recalling the PAF’s achievement in Operation Swift Retort, he said, “Alhamd-u-Lillah! PAF once again lived up to the Nation\u2019s expectations and proved to be the Guardians of our free Blue Skies through timely a and well-calibrated response, which kept the enemy at bay.”<\/div>\n
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He further said that #PAF<\/a> had made great strides on its journey to excellence and continued transformation for a Next Generation Air Force \u2013 2047.<\/div>\n
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#Congratulating<\/a> the new Air Chief he said, “My successor is a sound professional with extraordinary leadership qualities and above all he is an excellent human being. I congratulate Air Chief Marshal Zaheer Ahmad Baber Sidhu on his appointment as Chief of the Air Staff, Pakistan Air Force, and wish him success in his new assignment. I am confident that during his tenure of command, Pakistan Air Force shall scale to new heights of excellence, InshaAllah!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Islamabad; 19 March 2021 – Air Chief Marshal Zaheer Ahmad Baber Sidhu took over the command of Pakistan Air Force\u00a0\u00a0as the 23rd Chief of the Air Staff, in a graceful Change of Command ceremony held at Air Headquarters, Islamabad today. During the ceremony a smartly turned out contingent of Pakistan Air Force presented the guard […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,24],"tags":[655,1062,48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9644,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9641\/revisions\/9644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}