1957
Air Force Command
Asghar Khan becomes the first Pakistani Commander in Chief of the Pakistan Air Force.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Peshawar in Pakistan. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Asghar Khan becomes the first Pakistani Commander in Chief of the Pakistan Air Force.
Nur Khan assumes command of the Pakistan Air Force only weeks before the 1965 war with India.
Anwar Shamim becomes Chief of Air Staff and oversees a major period of modernization in the Pakistan Air Force.
Akhtar recommends sustained Pakistani support for Afghan resistance groups fighting Soviet forces in Afghanistan.
Provincial minister Siraj-ul-Haq opposes any military attack on Iran.
Provenance
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