A Pakistan Air Force T-33 trainer was hijacked on August 20, 1971 before Indo-Pakistani war of 1971 in Karachi when a Bengali instructor pilot, Flight Lieutenant Matiur Rahman, knocked out the young Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas with the intention of defecting to India with the plane and national secrets.

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.

* Pakistan Air Force

In the early 1970s, setbacks to US military capabilities in the region including the fall of Saigon, victory of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, the closure of the Peshawar Air Station listening post in Pakistan and Kagnew Station in Ethiopia, the Mayaguez incident, and the build-up of Soviet Naval presence in Aden and a Soviet Air Base at Berbera, Somalia, caused the US to request, and the UK to approve, permission to build a fleet anchorage and enlarged airfield on Diego Garcia, and the Seabees doubled the number of workers constructing these facilities.

Once Operation Searchlight and Operation Barisal commenced, Air Marshal Masud flew to West Pakistan, and unlike Admiral Ahsan, tried to stop the violence in East Pakistan.

Therefore, General Niazi and Air Marshal Enamul Haque, Commander of Eastern Air Force Command ( EAFC ), were failed to launch any operation in East Pakistan against Indian or its allies.

The Indian Air Force had dismantled the capability of Pakistan Air Force in East Pakistan.

Powers ’ U-2, which departed from a military airbase in Peshawar, Pakistan and may have received support from the US Air Station at Badaber ( Peshawar Airbase ), was shot down by an S-75 Dvina ( SA-2 Surface to Air ) missile on May 1, 1960, over Sverdlovsk.

* 1921 – Asghar Khan, Pakistan Air Force commander-in-chief

Regional airlines such as Turkish Airlines, Gulf Air, Indian Airlines, Pakistan International Airlines ( PIA ), Iranian Airlines, and others also make frequent stops at Kabul International Airport.

Museums: The main Museum of Karachi is National Museum of Pakistan others are Air Force Museum and Pakistan Maritime Museum.

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Defence attachés from Pakistan and Russia visit the communications tent at the Nigerian Air Force Base, Abuja, Nigeria, on July 21, 2008, during Africa Endeavor 2008.

The armed forces comprise three main branches: the Pakistan Army, the Pakistan Navy ( including the Pakistan Marines ) and the Pakistan Air Force, together with a number of paramilitary forces.

Nehru ordered the raising of an elite Indian-trained " Tibetan Armed Force " composed of Tibetan refugees, which served with distinction in future wars against Pakistan in 1965 and 1971.

In November 2001, Taliban, Al-Qaeda combatants and ISI operatives were safely evacuated from Kunduz on Pakistan Army cargo aircraft to Pakistan Air Force bases in Chitral and Gilgit in Pakistan's Northern Areas in what has been dubbed the " Airlift of Evil " Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf wrote in his memoirs that Richard Armitage, the former US deputy secretary of state, said Pakistan would be " bombed back to the stone-age " if it continued to support the Taliban, although Armitage has since denied using the " stone age " phrase.

In November 2001, before the capture of Kunduz by United Front troops under the command of Mohammad Daud Daud, thousands of top commanders and regular fighters of the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence agents and military personnel, and other volunteers and sympathizers in the Kunduz airlift, dubbed the Airlift of Evil by US military forces around Kunduz and subsequently used as a term in media reports, were evacuated and airlifted out of Kunduz by Pakistan Army cargo aircraft to Pakistan Air Force air bases in Chitral and Gilgit in Pakistan's Northern Areas.

* Assistant Warrant Officer, a rank in Pakistan Air Force above Senior Technician and below Warrant Officer

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

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.

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.

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.

The PAF also has a tertiary role of providing strategic air transport and logistics capability to Pakistan.

It has since been called the Pakistan Air Force ( PAF ).

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.

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.

A PAF F-104A Starfighter from No. 9 Squadron intercepted the IAF fighter near Badin in Sindh, Pakistan.

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.

Close air support to the Pakistan Army was unexpectedly effective and the PAF is widely considered to have neutralized the large difference in military strength of India and Pakistan.

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.

In August 1994 the PAF was offered the Saab JAS-39 Gripen by Sweden, but again the sale did not occur because 20 % of the Gripen's components were from the U. S. and Pakistan was still under U. S. sanctions.

Pakistan was created in 1947 expressly as a Muslim state, but when the army took over eleven years later it did so on a wave of mass impatience which was directed in part against the inability of political and religious leaders to think their way through to the meaning of Islam for the modern political situation.

Although the formation was orgnanized but East Pakistan did not took role in 1947 war and no pressure was applied in Eastern borders.

The Saudi Arabia did not welcome the succession of East Pakistan, and its communism was strongly opposed by the King Faisal who had strong anti-Communism views.

In late 1999, Hazmi, Attash and Yemeni went to Karachi, Pakistan to see Mohammed, who instructed them on Western culture and travel ; however, Mihdhar did not go to Karachi, instead returning to Yemen.

Meanwhile the Muslim League did cooperate with Britain and moved, against Gandhi's strong opposition, to demands for a totally separate Muslim state of Pakistan.

In late 1999, Hazmi, Attash, and Yemeni went to Karachi, Pakistan to see Mohammed, who instructed them on Western culture and travel ; however, Mihdhar did not go to Karachi, instead returning to Yemen.

Pakistan did not view the test as a " peaceful nuclear explosion ", and canceled talks scheduled for 10 June on normalization of relations.

" East Pakistan did not enjoy the benefits that came with the economical progress and the majority of promised funds for East Pakistan were never issued.

However, despite the initiatives were taken to improve the population during the Ayub Khan's government, the poor mass did not enjoy the benefits and reforms that were enjoyed by the middle and gentry classes of Pakistan.

The Awami League advocated greater autonomy for East Pakistan but the military government did not permit Mujibur Rahman to form a government.

Nixon met with Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and did not believe her assertion that she would not invade Pakistan ; he did not trust her and once referred to her as an " old witch ".

On 21 June 1947, Khudai Khidmatgar leaders met under the presidency of Amir Mohammad Khan at Bannu and believed that a referendum was inevitable and that the participants would declare that Pakhtuns did not accept India or Pakistan and announced a boycott of the referendum.

Afghanistan and Pashtun nationalists did not exploit Pakistan's vulnerability during the nation's 1965 and 1971 wars with India, and even backed Pakistan against a largely Hindu India.

The united government of Pakistan expanded the cultivated area and some irrigation facilities, but the rural population generally became poorer between 1947 and 1971 because improvements did not keep pace with rural population increase.

The " Toyota War " between Libya and Chad and the turmoil in Haiti added to DIA's heavy production workload, as did unrest in other parts of Latin America, Somalia, Ethiopia, Burma, Pakistan, and the Philippines.

The revolt did not happen, and India sent its forces across the Ceasefire Line ( now Line of Control ) and threatened Pakistan by crossing the International Border near Lahore as war broke out on a general scale.

However, the partition of British India into India and Pakistan in 1947 did not divide the nations cleanly along religious lines.

The war was unique in that it did not involve the issue of Kashmir, but was rather precipitated by the crisis brewing in erstwhile East Pakistan.

He was neither born nor raised in Gujarat, and Gujarat did not end up a part of Pakistan, the state he espoused.

Waugh made his ODI debut against Pakistan at the Adelaide Oval on December, but did not bat or bowl as Australia took a nine-wicket victory.

The series against Pakistan was similarly high scoring, with four draws, three of which did not reach the fourth innings.

< BLOCKQUOTE > After studying at Columbia University, he did extensive traveling in the Middle East, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Nepal.

Unlike NATO, CENTO did not have a unified military command structure, nor were many U. S. or UK military bases established in member countries, although the U. S. had communications and electronic intelligence facilities in Iran, and operated U-2 intelligence flights over the USSR from bases in Pakistan.