Tahir Rafique Butt
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Air Chief Marshal Tahir Rafique Butt NI(M) |
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| طاھر رفیق بٹ | |
| 20th Chief of Air Staff (Pakistan) | |
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In office March 19, 2012 – March 19, 2015 |
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| President | Mamnoon Hussain |
| Prime Minister | Nawaz Sharif |
| Preceded by | Rao Qamar Suleman |
| Succeeded by | Sohail Aman |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1955 |
| Awards |
 Nishan-e-Imtiaz(Military) Hilal-e-Imtiaz (Military) Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Basalat
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| Website | www |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |
 Pakistan
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| Service/branch |
 Pakistan Air Force
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| Years of service | 1977-2015 |
| Rank |
 Air Chief Marshal
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| Unit | No. 1 Squadron (Rehbar) |
| Commands |
Chief of Air Staff Director of the NAB (Kpk Branch) Southern Air Command ACAS of PAF Personnel ACAS Training DCAS Personnel PAF Base Lower Topa |
| Battles/wars |
2001 India-Pakistan standoff 2008 Indo-Pakistan standoff War in North-West Pakistan |
Tahir Rafique Butt (Urdu:طاهر رفيق بٹ;b. 1955) Tbt, NI(M) HI(M) MSc, is a retired air officer who was the 20th Chief of Air Staff of the Pakistan Air Force serving from 19 March 2012 to 19 March 2015. He was replaced by Air Chief Marshal Sohail Aman.
Before being appointed chief he served as Vice Chief of Air Staff (VCAS) since 5 October 2010. His other appointments include Deputy Chief of Air Staff at Air Headquarters and commanding an operational base.
Tahir Rafique Butt was born in 1955 to a Kashmiri family, in Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan. He received his early education from the PAF Public School– a boarding school managed by the Air Force. After graduating from PAF Public School in 1973, he enrolled in Punjab University and attained BSc in Science in 1975. The same year, Butt's nomination was accepted at the Pakistan Air Force Academy after interviewed by the Inter-Services Selection Board.
During his mid-officer career, Rafique studied at the National University of Modern Languages before transferring to Quaid-e-Azam University in 1993–94. From 1994–95, he spent a semester at the Staff College in Turkey. From 2000 till 2001, Rafique continued to proceed his studies to National Defense University (NDU) where gained his MSc in Defence and Strategic studies from the National Defense University.
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