Memories from the past ,Asghar Ali Mubarak along with Shaheed Mushaf Ali Mir , 0n 19th February 2003,this rear picture was taken of all time Pakistan’s great a four-star air officer, who was the sixteenth chief of air staff of Pakistan Air Force (PAF)On February 20, 2003, Mushaf Ali Mir died along with his wife, Bilquis Mir, and all 15 other officers on board, when their Fokker F-27 crashed during a routine flight to PAF Base Kohat. Among the casualties were other high-ranking officials of the Air Force, including two Principal Staff Officers – Air vice Marshal Abdul Razzaq, DCAS (Training) and Air Vice Marshal Saleem Nawaz, DCAS (Administration) – and the air crew. On October 5, 2015, Mushaf Ali Mir plane crash report and findings of Public Accounts Committee of National Assembly of Pakistan brought revelations about negligence, possible corruption and a faulty organism within the top level of the system. Report indicated that plane was very old and was not fit for flight operations. According to investigative journalist Gerald Posner, the death of, Mushaf Ali Mir was not an accident, but instead an act of sabotage. The author claims in his book Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11, that Osama bin Laden struck a deal with Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) through Mir in 1996 to get protection, arms, and supplies for Al-Qaeda. The meeting was blessed by the Saudis through Prince Turki bin Faisal Al Saud, the Saudi intelligence chief. However, after theSeptember 11 attacks on the United States in 2001, and a reversal of Pakistani and Saudi stances favoring the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, the three Saudi princes associated with the deals died within days, and seven months after that, Mir’s plane crashed near the Pakistan–Afghan border. Prince Turki bin Faisal, on the other hand, was removed as intelligence chief and sent as Ambassador to United Kingdom during the same time.
Mushaf Ali Mir (5 March 1947 – 20 February 2003) was an influential statesman and a four-star air officer, who was the sixteenth chief of air staff of Pakistan Air Force (PAF), serving from 20 November 2000 until his accidental death in a plane crash on 20 February 2003.A combatant pilot and air operations strategist, Mir commanded the strategic aerial combat missions during the civil war in Afghanistan, and also commanded PAF forces during the 2001 Indo-Pakistan standoff. On 20 November 2000, he was promoted to four-star rank and appointed Chief of Air Staff by his close friend and comrade, General Pervez Musharraf. His appointment was cut short when a former PAF Fokker F-27 on which he was a passenger crashed near Kohat, Pakistan. He was succeeded by Air Chief Marshal Kaleem Saadat.
