Tahir Hussain Mashhadi

Syed Tahir Hussain Mashhadi
Pakistani Senator from Sindh
Incumbent
Assumed office
March 2012
PresidentMamnoon Hussain
Prime MinisterNawaz Sharif
Personal details
Born(1942-07-26)July 26, 1942
Jehanian, Punjab, British India
DiedJuly 9, 2022(2022-07-09) (aged 79)
Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
Political partyMuttahida Qaumi Movement
OccupationSoldier, politician
Military service
Battles/warsIndo-Pakistani War of 1971

Syed Tahir Hussain Mashhadi (Urdu: سید طاہر حسین مشہدی; 26 July 1942 – 9 July 2022) was a Pakistani soldier and a politician (a member of the Senate of Pakistan from 2003 to 2006).[1]

Military career

Tahir Mashhadi joined the Pakistan Army in 1970 during the war with India and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in 1971, graduating from the Pakistan Military Academy.

During the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, Mashhadi was stationed in then East Pakistan, which saw some heavy air attacks. At the end of war, Mashhadi was taken as a prisoner of war and repatriated in 1974.

He was a member of the Pakistan Peoples Party and a former senator of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement.[1][2]

Death

Tahir Hussain Mashhadi died on 9 July 2022.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b "Senator Tahir Hussain Mashhadi profile". Senate of Pakistan website. Archived from the original on 19 December 2007. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
  2. ^ "Former Muttahida senator Tahir Mashhadi joins PPP". The News International (newspaper). 31 July 2021. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
  3. ^ President, PM condole death of PPP leader Associated Press of Pakistan website, Published 9 July 2022, Retrieved 16 April 2023