Zulfiqar Ali Khan

Zulfiqar Ali Khan

Air Chief Marshal (retd) Zulfiqar Ali Khan was the PAF Chief of Air Staff from April 1974 to July 1978. He also served as Pakistani ambassador to the United States during the first Benazir government from July 1989 to September 1990.

ACM Zulfiqar Ali Khan was made the Air Chief, when the previous chief Air Marshal Zafar Chaudhry was forced to resign by then Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Zulfiqar Ali Khan, then an Air Marshal was promoted to Air Chief Marshal in March 1976, when Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee was newly created and defence ministry was reorganized.

After retiring from Air Force, the retired chief was made the Pakistan Ambassador to the United States in 1989 by then PM Benazir Bhutto, but was recalled only after a year, when Bhutto's government was dissolved by President Ghulam Ishaq Khan in 1990.

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