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Qaiser acting Air Chief

Published February 21, 2003
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ISLAMABAD, Feb 20: Vice Chief of Air Staff Air Marshal Syed Qaiser Hussain has taken over as acting Chief of Air Staff with immediate effect.

“The VCOAS took over the acting charge in accordance with the SOP of the PAF,” said PAF spokesman Sarfraz Ahmed Khan while briefing the media at the Chaklala airbase on Thursday.

“Pakistan Air Force is in normal state of operational readiness,” he said.

Air Marshal Hussain took over following the killing of Chief of Air Staff Air Marshal Mushaf Ali Mir in a PAF plane crash near Kohat.—APP

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