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![[National Standard of the Pakistan Air Force]](../images/p/pk^afclr.gif)
2:3, by Joe McMillan
The standard pattern for national standards of the Pakistani armed forces, the
national flag with the unit or service badge in the upper hoist. Green and white
fringe, and mounted on a staff with a large silver-colored finial shaped like a
fat saucer mounted vertically. The photos I based the image on appeared to have
the flag in 3:4 ratio. Source: The Story of the Pakistan Air Force: A Saga of
Courage and Honour (Islamabad: Shaheen Foundation, 1988).
Joe McMillan, 27 January 2002
![[Air Force Ensign]](../images/p/pk^af.gif)
2:3, by Joe McMillan
Air Force Ensign - regular version.
![[Air Force Ensign]](../images/p/pk^afcl2.gif)
2:3, by Joe McMillan
Parade version of Pakistan Air Force ensign. This fringed version of the
ensign is carried by Pakistan Air Force colour parties to the left of the national standard
of the Pakistan Air Force. I've made it to conform to the 3:4 ratio that I believe is
correct for the national standard. It is in any case the same size as that
national standard and is similarly fringed, corded, and tasseled. However,
its finial consists of a silver-colored spiked ball, like a medieval mace
head, with a pair of elevated wings attached.
Joe McMillan, 29 January 2003
The image looks like the fringe was white-green-light blue. Is that correct?
Santiago Dotor, 29 January 2003
I should have mentioned that. I noted in looking at fringed military flags in
Pakistan that all the main colors in the flag seem to be carried over into the
fringe. The PAF flag was not among those that I was able to examine up close, so
the fringe on the image is based on the assumption that the same practice
applies. That may
not, in fact, be the case.
Joe McMillan, 29 January 2003
![[Civil Air Ensign of Pakistan]](../images/p/pk_cae.gif)
by Miles Li
The Civil Air Ensign of Pakistan is similar to other former British colonies that have adopted British forms of flag use. If I am not mistaken, the designer or designers of the new Pakistani Civil Air Ensign knew a bit about vexillology because they did not adopt a cross version. Instead, the vertical blue and white bars were left probably because such a Christ