Azim Daudpota

Mohammed Azim Daudpota (; 14 September 1933 – 3 April 2017) was a three-star officer in the Pakistan Air Force who went on to serve as the Chief of Air Staff of the Air Force of Zimbabwe, and later briefly served as Governor of Sindh.

Career Daudpota joined the Pakistan Air Force Academy in 1951. The following year, he commenced a course of training at Royal Australian Air Force Academy from where he graduated in 1956. After service as a pilot and then as Squadron Commander of numbers 15 and 17; he attended the PAF Staff College before serving on the staff of the Pakistani High Commission in New Delhi. After a further period of training at the Royal College of Defence Studies in London, Daudpota commanded PAF Bases Rafiqui and Sargodha.

Civilian work On his return to Pakistan, Daudpota became the Managing Director and Chairman of Pakistan International Airlines from January 1986 to March 1991.

He became the Chairman of Pakistan Industrial Development Corporation. He joined Kashmir Corporation as an Executive Director in April 1991; from 25 October 1999 to 24 May 2000, Daudpota also became the Governor of Sindh (19992000).

At the time of his death, he was the chairman of the board at MacPac Films Limited, a company that makes raw material for packaging. Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Star of Excellence) Award by the President of Pakistan. Hilal-e-Imtiaz (Crescent of Excellence) by the President of Pakistan. Order of Merit by the President of Zimbabwe in 1986.

Death Azim Daudpota died on 3 April 2017 in Karachi at age 83 after battling a number of illnesses and died of cardiac arrest. He was buried at Pakistan Air Force's Faisal Airbase graveyard in Karachi.

Awards and decorations

Hilal-e-Imtiaz

(Military)

(Crescent of Excellence)Sitara-e-Jurat (Star of Courage)Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military)

(Star of Excellence)Tamgha-e-Diffa (General Service Medal)Sitara-e-Harb 1965 War (War Star 1965)Tamgha-e-Jang 1965 War (War Medal 1965)Tamgha-e-Jang 1971 War (War Medal 1971)Tamgha-e-Sad Saala Jashan-e- Wiladat-e-Quaid-e-Azam

(100th Birth Anniversary of

Muhammad Ali Jinnah)Tamgha-e-Jamhuria (Republic Commemoration Medal)

1956India Service Medal 1939–1945Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal

(1953)Order of Merit (Zimbabwe)

Foreign Decorations Foreign AwardsOrder of Merit