Mushaf Ali Mir

Air Chief Marshal
Mushaf Ali Mir
NI(M) HI(M) SI(M) SBt
Air Chief Marshal Mushaf Ali Mir NI(M) HI(M) SI(M) SBt
مصحف علی میر
	ACM Mushaf Ali Mir (1947–2003)
9th Chief of Air Staff
	In office; 20 November 2000 – 20 February 2003
Preceded by	Pervaiz Mehdi Qureshi
Succeeded by	Kaleem Saadat
Chairman; Pakistan Aeronautical Complex
	In office; September 2000 – December 2000
Preceded by	Himself (as Director General)
Succeeded by	Air Marshal Pervez A Nawaz
Director General; Pakistan Aeronautical Complex
	In office; January 1999 – September 2000
Preceded by	Air Marshal Saeed Anwer
Succeeded by	Himself (as Chairman)
Personal details
Born	5 March 1947; Lahore, Punjab Province (British India); (now Punjab, Pakistan)
Died	20 February 2003 (aged 55); Kohat Pass, Kohat District, Pakistan
Cause of death	Aviation accident
Resting place	Mominpura Graveyard
Relatives	Yunus Hussain (brother-in-law)
Nickname(s)	Mashoo; Mir
Military service
Branch/service	Pakistan Air Force
Years of service	1966–2003
Rank	Air Chief Marshal
Unit	No. 25 Squadron Night Strike Eagles
Commands	DCAS (Air Operations); Central Air Command; Northern Air Command; Project ROSE; Project Green Flash; ACAS (Plans); Joint Intelligence X (JIX);
Battles/wars	Indo-Pakistani war of 1971; Afghan Civil War (1996–2001); 2001–2002 India–Pakistan standoff; War on Terror War in Afghanistan (2001–03); ;
Awards	See list

Air Chief Marshal Mushaf Ali Mir (5 March 1947 – 20 February 2003) was an influential statesman and a four-star rank air officer who served as the ninth 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 being 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.