{"id":29347,"date":"2024-03-17T16:46:18","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T11:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=29347"},"modified":"2024-03-17T16:46:18","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T11:46:18","slug":"pm-shehbaz-grants-one-year-extension-to-chief-of-air-staff-zaheer-babar-sidhu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/latest-news\/pm-shehbaz-grants-one-year-extension-to-chief-of-air-staff-zaheer-babar-sidhu\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Shehbaz grants one-year extension to Chief of Air Staff Zaheer Babar Sidhu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newly elected Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif today extended Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Zaheer Ahmed Babar Sidhu&#8217;s tenure by one year.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister has sent the summary to President Asif Ali Zardari on the Air Chief Marshal&#8217;s extension and awarded it following his permission, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Zaheer Babar is a four-star Air Force officer and the 16th Chief of Air Staff. On March 19, 2021, he took over command of the Air Force from his predecessor, ACM Mujahid Anwar Khan.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pakistan-airforce-to-boost-air-strike-power-with-50-enhanced-fighter-jets.html\">Pakistan Airforce to boost air strike power with 50 enhanced fighter jets<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>CAS Zaheer was set to retire tomorrow (Monday) after the completion of this three-year tenure as the Chief of Air Staff post.<\/p>\n<p>Air Chief Zaheer Babr met with PM Shehbaz Sharif on Monday to discuss subjects of national importance.<\/p>\n<p>The CAS congratulated Prime Minister Shehbaz on assuming the office, a PM Office press release said. In the meeting, they discussed the professional matters of the Pakistan Air Force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly elected Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif today extended Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Zaheer Ahmed Babar Sidhu&#8217;s tenure by one year. The prime minister has sent the summary to President Asif Ali Zardari on the Air Chief Marshal&#8217;s extension and awarded it following his permission, sources said. Zaheer Babar is a four-star Air [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":29348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,21,2],"tags":[10768,5415,13430,13431],"class_list":["post-29347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-news","category-pakistan","tag-chief-of-air-staff","tag-prime-minister-shehbaz-sharif","tag-air-chief-marshal-zaheer-ahmed-babar-sidhu","tag-zaheer-ahmed-babar-sidhu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}