Tahir Hussain Mashhadi Explained

Syed Tahir Hussain Mashhadi
Term Start:	March 2012
President:	Mamnoon Hussain
Primeminister:	Nawaz Sharif
Party:	Muttahida Qaumi Movement
Office:	Pakistani Senator from Sindh
Birth Date:	26 July 1942
Birth Place:	Jehanian, Punjab, British India
Death Place:	Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
Occupation:	Soldier, politician
Battles:	Indo-Pakistani War of 1971

Syed Tahir Hussain Mashhadi (Urdu: {{Nastaliq|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).

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]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Senator Tahir Hussain Mashhadi profile. dead. Senate of Pakistan website. 19 December 2007. 16 April 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20071219202529/http://www.senate.gov.pk/ShowMemberDetail.asp?MemberCode=364&CatCode=7&CatName=Senate+Tenure+%28Current+2006%2E%2E%2E%2E%29.
2. News: Former Muttahida senator Tahir Mashhadi joins PPP . 16 April 2023 . The News International (newspaper) . 31 July 2021 . en.
3. https://www.app.com.pk/national/pm-expressed-condolence-over-death-of-ppp-leader/ President, PM condole death of PPP leader