PAF pilots managed to shoot down ten Israeli aircraft, including Mirages, Mystères and Vautours, without losses on their own side.

The PAF, Marines, and the Navy had little presence in the region.

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.

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.

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.

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

During close air support missions for Pak Army from late 2008 to mid-2009, PAF conducted more than 5, 500 bombing missions and dropped 10, 600 bombs in northwest tribal areas.

In 1995, PAF decided to order 75 more K-8s to gradually replace its fleet of Cessna T-37 Tweet basic trainers.

The PAF employs approximately 65, 000 full-time personnel ( including approximately 3, 000 pilots ) and, currently, operates 400 combat aircraft as well as various transport and training aircraft.

These new aircraft gave a much-needed boost to the morale and combat capability of the Pakistan Air Force ; 93 Hawker Fury and roughly 50-70 Bristol Freighter aircraft were inducted into the PAF by 1950.

Two PAF F-86F Sabres from No. 15 Squadron on Air Defence Alert ( ADA ) were scrambled from Sargodha Air Base to intercept the IAF aircraft.

Many publications have credited the PAF's successes to U. S. equipment, claiming it to be superior to the aircraft operated by the IAF and giving the PAF a " qualitative advantage ".

According to Indian sources most aircraft losses of IAF were on ground while PAF lost most in aerial combat.

Even though the IAF flew a larger offensive air campaign by devoting 40 % of its air effort to offensive air support alone, according to Indian sources the majority of its losses came from aircraft destroyed on the ground through PAF air strikes.

The PAF pilots operated with Egyptian, Jordanese and Iraqi combat aircraft.

ACM Shamim told General Zia that, " Indian aircraft could reach the area in 3 minutes whereas the PAF would take 8 minutes, allowing the Indians to attack the facility and return before the PAF could defend it ".

It was decided the most suitable aircraft would be the F-16 Fighting Falcon, which the United States eventually agreed to supply after the PAF refused to purchase the F-5E and F-5G.

Desperate for a new high-tech combat aircraft, between late 1990 and 1993 the PAF evaluated the European Panavia Tornado MRCA ( multi-role combat aircraft ) and rejected it.

In 1992 the PAF again looked at the Mirage 2000, reviving a proposal from the early 1980s to procure around 20-40 aircraft, but again a sale did not occur because France did not want to sell a fully capable version due to political reasons.

An initial investigation report revealed that the Pakistan Air Force ( PAF ) reported the movement of some half-a-dozen planes near the Jalalabad border at 11 pm before the US helicopters entered Abbottabad to kill Osama bin Laden .“ One aircraft was identified as a US AWACS and the remaining five were recognised as F-18 jets of the US.

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

In 2010, the number of K-8 aircraft in PAF were estimated to be around 40.

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

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.

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.

Many retaliatory attacks on Catholics were claimed using the covername " Protestant Action Force " ( PAF ).

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.

Wary of India's growing involvement in the Bengali rebellion, the Pakistan Air Force ( PAF ) launched a preemptive strike on 10 Indian air bases at Srinagar, Jammu, Pathankot, Amritsar, Agra, Adampur, Jodhpur, Jaisalmer, Uttarlai and Sirsa at 1745 hours on 3 December.

Just as the PAF pilot locked on to the Indian fighter and was about to release his AIM-9B Sidewinder Air-to-Air Missile ( AAM ), the Indian pilot lowered his aircraft's landing gear ( an internationally recognized sign of aerial surrender ).

( NOTE: This event is not to be confused with the surrender of an IAF Gnat on 4 September 1965 during the 1965 India-Pakistan War, which is on display at the PAF Museum Karachi )

Two F-16A and four F-16B were delivered to Pakistan in 1983, the first F-16 arriving at PAF Base Sargodha ( now known as PAF Base Mushaf ) on 15 January 1983 flown by Squadron Leader Shahid Javed.

The Pakistan Air Force ( PAF ) did not see active combat during the low-intensity Kargil Conflict between India and Pakistan during the summer of 1999 but remained on high air defence alert ( ADA ) and performed F-16 and F-7MP combat air patrols ( CAPs ) near the eastern border with India.

After the 2008 Bombay attacks, PAF was put on high alert.

These planes flew near the Pakistani border, but did not cross into the airspace of Pakistan ,” PAF was working under the peace time conditions prior to May 2 incident on the eastern border. Defence Secretary Lt-Gen ( retd ) Syed Athar Ali provided a detailed statement explaining the salient features of Pakistan ’ s defence policy.

On detection of intrusion, The PAF Jets on Air Defence alert were scrambled from Sargodha and PAF immediately took adequate operational measures as per standard operating procedure.