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The Airports._Security‘ Force (Pakistan) (ASF) is p8t‘I_Of lite Aviation Division (Pakistan) and is responsible for protecting the airports and the facilities. and the planes (on-ground or in-air). ASF safeguards the civil aviation industry against unlawful interference, adopting counter terrorism measures, preventing crime and maintaining law and order within the limits of Airports in Pakistan. The current Director General of ASF is Maj Gen Sohail Ahmad Khan (from Pakistan Army).
The ASF was established in I976 under the Airport Security Force Act LXXVII of I975 initially as the Directorate of the Department of Civil Aviation. _After the hijacking of a Pakistan International Airlines Aeroplane in March 1981, sensing the contradictory requirements of security and facilitation, the ASF was separated, and in December 1983, was placed under the folds of the Ministry of Defence.
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