Mir has been the key person behind Party's formation along with its founder President Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari.
[2] After graduating from college, Mir mobilised the local youth and formed a leading environment protection organisation, Green Pahalgam.
He strongly advocated the dignified return of Kashmiri Pandits, inclusion of youth into mainstream politics, and their engagement in sports and self-reliant activities.
Mir who was earlier associated with the National Conference served as NC's key person and only Provincial Secretary from famed South Kashmir and a spokesperson till 2007.
Later, he developed differences with the leadership of Jammu and Kashmir National Conference and felt the party's response toward his workers was suffocating him, and later joined PDP in 2007.