serviceyears branch allegiance birth_date term_end commands battles term_start rank name predecessor birth_place president awards office successor primeminister native_name article_title
1957 -- 1991 pak pakistan 15 october 1935 march 9,1991 rafiqui -lrb- administration -rrb- chief of air staff airbase chief inspector dcas -lrb- operations -rrb- dcas indo-pakistani war of 1965 indo-pakistani war of 1971 march 9 , 1988 35px air chief marshal -lrb- general -rrb- hakeemullah khan durrani jamal a. khan charsadda ghulam ishaq khan sitara-e-basalat sitara-e-jurat nishan-e-imtiaz -lrb- military -rrb- 12th chief of air staff farooq feroze khan benazir bhutto nawaz sharif حکیم اللہ خان درانی hakeemullah khan durrani

hakeemullah khan durrani

air chief marshal hakeemullah khan durrani , ni -lrb- m -rrb- , sj , sbt , -lrb- born 15 october 1935 -rrb- was the chief of air staff of pakistan air force from 9 march 1988 to 8 march 1991 .
he belong to carsadda khyber pukhtoonkhwa pakistan .
his father name is habib ullah durrani .
he belongs to durrani clan .
his full name is hakeemullah khan durrani .
he passed school from government high school no. 1 charsadda & intermediate from government college charsadda .
hakimullah was commissioned as a fighter pilot on 11 january 1957 in 23rd gd -lrb- p -rrb- course .
he is a graduate of air command and staff college , usa and the royal college of defence studies , uk .
he qualified as a flight leader and served in a number of fighter squadrons .
he was also appointed as project officer for the induction of mirage aircraft in 1966 .
thereafter , he commanded no. 5 squadron -lrb- mirages -rrb- .
he was awarded sitara-e-jurat for his valor and leadership in the indo-pakistani war of 1971 .
subsequently , he commanded no. 33 wing , combat commanders school and rafiqui airbase .
some of his staff appointments include director of operations , acas -lrb- flight safety -rrb- , chief inspector , saso at air defence command , acas -lrb- operations -rrb- , chief project director falcon - the project related to the induction of f-16 aircraft - and dcas -lrb- operations -rrb- .
he was dcas -lrb- administration -rrb- prior to taking over as chief of air staff .
at promotion , hakimullah superseded at least one senior officer , air marshal shabbir hussain syed , the then vice chief of air staff -lrb- vcas -rrb- .
