Career
She was Pakistan"s first female fighter pilot to die in the line of duty. She died after a Pakistan Air Force (PAF) FT-7PG aircraft crashed near Kundian in Mianwali District in the northwest of Punjab, Pakistan on November 24, 2015. Marium Mukhtiar Shaikh was the daughter of Colonel.R. Mukhtiar Ahmed Shaikh, and her ancestors were from Pano Akil, Sindh.
Marium Mukhtiar graduated as a fighter pilot in the Pakistan Air Force in 2014, along with six other women in Engineering Branch.
On Tuesday 24 November 2015, Mariam Mukhtiar Shaikh and Squadron leader Saqib Abbasi were on their routine operational training mission when their plane crashed near Kundian, Panjab. Both occupants ejected from the cockpit and the plane crash-landed.
Abbasi suffered minor injuries in the accident, however Mukhtar died of her injuries in a military hospital. She is buried in Malir Cantonment Graveyard.