I was at the Pakistani AF base at Rawalpindi in 1978, and went into Base Ops to file a flight plan. There was a WOFF behind the counter wearing a DFC ribbon. "Gosh", I thought. The next day I went back in and there were two SGTS, and they too had DFCs. "Hang on" I thought, "not all Paks could be this sharp?" Then it occurred to me that SGTs can't have DFCs, and I finally NB'd that they didn't have wings!
It turned out the ribbon was the Pakistani National Medal, for 10 or 15 years service. Looking carefully you could see the colour was in fact a very dark green, with white diagonal stripes (the Pakistani national colours).
The story was that the design of the ribbon had been a parting shot at the Brits, so that all the locals could wear DFCs !!