During his college years in PMA and initial joint military testings, Musharraf shared a room with PQ Mehdi of PAF and Abdul Aziz Mirza of Navy ( both reached to four-star assignments and served with Musharraf later on ) and after giving the exams and entranace interviews, all three cadets went to watch a world-acclaimed Urdu film, Savera ( lit.

The Pakistan Air Force (; English IPA: pɑkʰ fizʰæ ' jə, Pak Fiza ' ya ), abbreviated as PAF, is the air warfare branch of the Pakistan Armed Forces, primarily tasked with the aerial defence of Islamic Republic of Pakistan with a secondary role of providing air logistics support to the Pakistan Army and the Pakistan Navy.

Its graduates today lead most of the top-related departments of PAF, Pakistan Army, Pakistan Navy, PIA and other civilian sectors.

During the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965, the Indian Air Force repeated sorties and raids disrupted and effectively distracted the PAF air missions in the conflict, leading the Navy to jumped in the conflict.

The civilian pilots from PIA volunteered to serve in the surveillance missions with the PAF after the PAF launched the seaborne operation after the Indian naval attack but due to miscommunication and panic attack, the civilians abroad on Fokker Friendship raised a false alarmed which reported a Pakistan Navy frigate, PNS Zulfikar as a missile boat by Indian Navy.

The Indian Navy observes furthered noted that the " PAF pilots failed to recognize the difference between a large PNS Zulfikar frigate and small Osa missile boat .".

As Army and PAF gaining momentum on militancy, the Navy took the whole responsibility of conducting the largest search and rescue operations in the 2010 floods.

Some plain cloths Commandos were in the city The Pakistani Navy ( under Commodore Mumtaz ) had 300 troops and the PAF had an unknown number of personnel at the naval base and at the airport respectively.

Starting with the PAF, Musharraf pressured President Tarar to appoint most-junior air marshal to four-star rank, particularly someone with Musharraf had experienced working during the inter-services operations.

The PAF claims to have had complete air superiority over the battle area from the second day of operations.

The PAF without doubt, had achieved far more in terms of enemy aircraft destroyed on the ground but the IAF had achieved much more in the close support role.

At the end of the war, India had lost 110 aircraft with 19 damaged, not including those destroyed on the ground at night, against a loss of 16 PAF planes.

At the start of the war, the PAF inventory contained around 270 combat aircraft while the IAF had over 1, 200-outnumbering the PAF 4: 1 in West Pakistan and 10: 1 in East Pakistan.

At the end of the war, the Indian Air Force claimed that it had shot down 94 PAF aircraft ( including 54 F-86 Sabres ) compared to 44 to 130 the PAF flying 2, 914 combat sorties while the IAF flew 7, 346 combat sorties during the conflict.

During this war 16 PAF pilots volunteered to leave for the Middle East in order to support Egypt and Syria but by the time they arrived Egypt had already agreed on a cease-fire.

Because the PAF was trained and equipped to fight a conventional war, a new " counter-terrorist doctrine " had to be improvised .< ref name =" Airpower in COIN operations, by Ikram Sehgal ">

The PAF had initially been forced to use Google Earth for reconnaissance imagery until high resolution infra-red sensors were provided by the U. S. prior to the army's 2009 campaign in the Swat valley.

Models manufactured before 1998 had DiMarzio PAF Pro humbucking pickups.

* Gibson PAF pickups ( used in Les Pauls that originally had them installed )

The PAF accidentally attacked the PNS Zulfikar, the only naval destroyer, before the PAF recognized that it had laid attack on its own ship.

PAF No. 6 Squadron had 9 C-130B / E Hercules Aircraft available in March 1971.

Between April 1-April 5, the PAF had launched airstrikes to little effect on Rajshahi.

The PAF aircraft continued their presence in Abbottabad area till early morning and later returned to their air bases.

The PAF was tasked with providing point-defence to the Rann of Kutch region to prevent the Indian Air Force ( IAF ) from entering Pakistani airspace and attacking Pakistan Army positions.

According to Air Commodore ( retired ) Sajjad Haider who flew with No. 19 squadron, the F-104 Starfighter did not deserve its reputation as " the pride of the PAF " because it " was unsuited to the tactical environment of the region.

A number of civilian deaths occurred during PAF air strikes on 10 April 2010 in the Khyber tribal region.

On regaining consciousness in mid-flight, Rashid Minhas struggled for flight control as well as relayed the news of his hijack to the PAF base.

In early 2006 the Pakistan Air Force ( PAF ) ordered 500 AIM-120C-5 AMRAAM missiles as part of a $ 650 million F-16 ammunition deal to equip the PAF's F-16C / D Block 52 + and F-16A / B MLU fighters.

The PAF get the first three F-16 Block 52 + on 3 July 2010 and first batch of AMRAAMs on 26 July 2010.

thus, Indian air force has enjoyed dominance in the air and PAF was completely unable to give resistance.

Only one PAF combatant squadron, No. 14 Squadron Tail Choppers, was active in East Pakistan.

* PAF – Phone-A-Friend.

Parks: Some popular parks are Bagh Ibne Qasim, Boat Basin Park, Mazar-e-Quaid, Karachi Zoo, Hill Park, Safari Park, Bagh-e-Jinnah, PAF Museum Park, Maritime Museum Park, Aziz Bhatti Park and Jheel Park.

PAF also maintains close military relation with United States and is a Major non-NATO ally of the USA.

In 2010 the PAF have approximately 617, 000 personnel on active duty, 513, 000 in reserve and 304, 000 in its paramilitary forces giving a total of almost 1, 451, 000 personnel.

In 1947, the army and PAF attempted to annexed the Kashmir, but were pushed back by the single Indian Army.

The Company was responsible for the development and production of the payload fairings, payload attach fittings ( PAF ) and the construction of the launch complex for the H-II rocket.

Pakistan sent an 18-month advisory team ( the Pakistan Armed Forces Advisory Mission, or PAFAM ) composed of 1 brigadier, 1 naval captain and 1 group captain from the PAF.

Girobank's GIR 0AA, the last domestic postcode with a wholly alphabetical outward code, no longer exists in the Royal Mail's PAF system, but remains in active use by the bank's owners, currently Santander UK.

Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones named one of his guitars ( an early ' 50s Fender Telecaster with a Gibson PAF humbucking pickup installed in the neck position ) " Micawber.

He also energized the now-defunct Performing Arts Foundation ( PAF ) of Huntington.

One of the two major air force bases in Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, is named " PAF Base Faisal " in honour of King Faisal.

The granules include ADP, serotonin, platelet-activating factor ( PAF ), vWF, platelet factor 4, and thromboxane A < sub > 2 </ sub > ( TXA < sub > 2 </ sub >), which, in turn, activate additional platelets.

A successful early humbucking pickup was the so-called PAF ( literally " Patent Applied For ") invented by Seth Lover in 1955.

The production, which debuted on March 19, 1976, at the Performing Arts Foundation's ( PAF ) Playhouse in Huntington Station, Long Island, ran for a month and also featured Beverly D ' Angelo and Christine Lahti.

On 7 April 2009 a Philippine Air Force ( PAF ) Bell 412 of the Presidential Airlift Wing crashed at 6, 900 feet above sea level in the Kabayan-Pulag pass between Mount Mangingihi and Mount Pulag in thick low cloud and fog.

Normal levels do not exclude all forms of vWD, particularly type 2 which may only be revealed by investigating platelet interaction with subendothelium under flow ( PAF ), a highly specialized coagulation study not routinely performed in most medical laboratories.