Airports Security Force (ASF) is under the ministry of Aviation Division.

Aviation Division had been working under the Ministry of Defense as a wing until it was separated and created as a new Division under the Cabinet Secretariat in June 2013.

ORGANIZATIONS WORKING UNDER THE AVIATION DIVISION

ASF started its Journey by managing security of 7 major airports with a limited manpower of 2870 all ranks.

Subsequently it was mandated to provide security to all 42 airports in Pakistan with manpower of 8945 personnel.

The headquarter of airport security force:

Head Office

Address : University Avenue, Fasial Cantonment, Karachi.

When ASF Act 1975 came into effect, and it repealed the Airports Security Force Ordinance, 1975.

ASF ایکٹ 1975 نافذ ہوا، اور اس نے ایئرپورٹس سیکیورٹی فورس آرڈیننس، 1975 کو منسوخ کردیا۔

Khawaja Saad Rafique has been the Current Federal Minister for Aviation Division since 19th April 2022 to date.

also Khawaja Saad Rafique Federal Minister for Railway.

Fencing/security wall around the airport is built to stop

ASF: Airports Security Force

Works under: Aviation department

Responsible: protection & facilitation of planes

ASF protects the airports,

1. facilities and the planes (on-ground or in-air) in Pakistan,
2. safeguarding the civil aviation industry against unlawful interferences,
3. adopting counter-terrorism measures,
4. preventing crime and maintaining law and order within the limits of airports in Pakistan.
   

The ASF was established in 1976 under the Airports Security Force Act LXXVII of 1975 initially as the Directorate of the Department of Civil Aviation.

After the hijacking of a Pakistan International Airlines aero plane in March 1981

in December 1983, was placed under the folds of the Ministry of Defence.

Later, in 2013 under the umbrella of Cabinet Secretariat, an Aviation Division was created.

1.       Airports Security Force (ASF),

2.      Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and

3.      Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) came under the control of new division.

Short title, extent, application and commencement.— (1) This (ASF) Act may be called the Airports Security Force Act, 1975.