Mushaf Ali Mir, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Pakistani Air Force marshal
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Place of Birth: Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
About Mushaf Ali Mir
- Air Chief Marshal Mushaf Ali Mir (Urdu: ???? ??? ???; March 5, 1947 – 20 February 2003) NI(m), HI(m), SI(m), SBt.
- was an influential statesman and a four-star air force general who served as the Chief of Air Staff of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF), appointed on 20 November 2000 until his accidental death in a plane crash on 20 February 2003.A fighter pilot and a strategist, he briefly served at command level in the ISI before controversially promoted as a four-star air officer to command the air force in 2000.
- In 2001-02, he also commanded and provided the strategy to deploy troops during the military standoff with India.
- In addition, Air Chief Marshal Mir later went onto facilitate the United States military's war logistics for war operations in Afghanistan.
- His appointment was cut short when a former PAF Fokker F-27 in which he was a passenger crashed near Kohat, Pakistan. His death has been subject of numerous conspiracy theories with many American authors charging him of having advanced-knowledge on terrorist attacks in the United States in 2001.
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