ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A plane has crashed into a mountainside in a remote region west of Islamabad, killing Pakistan’s air force chief and all 16 others on board.
Air force chief Mushaf Ali Mir, his wife Bilqees, and several other top-ranking officials were killed in the crash in northwestern Pakistan, officials said. …
In 1988, Pakistan’s then-president, General Mohammad Zia- ul-Haq, died in a mysterious crash of a military plane in the Punjab province. The cause of the crash was never established.
I’m not saying that this wasn’t an accident like the article suggests, however accidents don’t generally happen to high-ranking members of a nation’s military.
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“We hope to have more mutual understandings and interests with the United States,” Mir said. Mutual interests include fighting terrorism, he said. “This is a global evil and we have got to fight it together,” Mir said. “We are also the victims. This is very important to our country and it is my government’s goal to support America fully so global terrorism is taken out from the entire world.” - Air Marshal Mushaf Ali Mir’s Interview: Islamabad, The News, September 5, 2001:
“We are establishing deterrence at all levels, though Americans are supplying weapons to India through proxy as India is buying huge military weapons from Israel,” he said: “Events put us slightly behind, but we are still better than India.” - Growing Discontent, Army Unhappy, ISI vs FBI , PAF Officers Happy:
Khawaja had come out with his fully documented story two weeks ago in SA Tribune, alleging that PAF Chief Mushaf Ali Mir had snatched his genuine business and given it to a friend because kickbacks of some five million dollars were being offered by the Indonesian suppliers. Khawaja knew about it because he was the one to receive the Emailed bribes offer in the first place. - Israel using India for sensitive Pakistan Data: ISLAMABAD June 11 (PNS): Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshall Mushaf Ali Mir Monday told journalist that the downed unmanned air vehicle (UAV), Searcher Mk II, by Pakistan Air Force near Kasur was in fact an Israeli plane which had taken off from India.