Tahir Hussain Mashhadi

Syed Tahir Hussain Mashhadi (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.

Death
Tahir Hussain Mashhadi died on 9 July 2022.