The Chief of the Air Staff is a senior most military appointment in the Pakistani military who is a senior member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee in a separate capacity, usually providing necessary consultation to the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee to act as a principal military adviser to the Prime Minister and its civilian government in the line of defending and guarding the nation's airspace and aerial borders.

The air force leadership is based in the AHQ (PAF) in Islamabad, at the vicinity of the Navy Headquarters.

[1] The Chief of the Air Staff exercise its responsibility of complete operational, training and logistics commands.

[3] In addition, the air chief has several staff officers:-[9] The following tables chronicle the appointees to the office of the Chief of the Air Staff or its preceding positions since the independence of Pakistan.

Rank insignia of the whole PAF was changed when ACM Tanvir Mahmood Ahmed was in the office.