Background
Syed Ijlal Haider Zaidi was born on December 29, 1928 in Shahabad, the then District Karnal, British India.
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He served in various key administrative and secretarial capacities, including Deputy Commissioner of Peshawar, Director General of Radio Pakistan, Chief Secretary of Azad Kashmir, Chief Secretary of North-West Frontier Province, Federal Defence Secretary and Establishment Secretary. Since 1992 he has been the chairman of the Pakistan-Japan Friendship Association, and in 2007 received a special commendation for his work there from the Japanese ambassador to Pakistan. He was a B.Sc engineer by profession, and obtained distinguished position in Superior Competitive Services examinations of Pakistan.
Syed Ijlal Haider Zaidi died on the morning of 23 March 2013 in Lahore after a 2 year battle with cancer.
He left three daughters, Shaazia, Anjum and Laila. He served as a senior bureaucrat while working very close to four former Presidents of Pakistan including Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, General Zia, Ghulam Ishaq Khan and Farooq Leghari, and was considered to be the right hand and closest aide of the former President Ghulam Ishaq Khan.
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman assassination:
In an email written by late Pakistani Journalist M.B Naqvi to Journalist Lawrence Liffschultz of Far Eastern Economic Review, Naqvi claimed Syed Ijlal Haider Zaidi had prior knowledge that Bangladesh Independence leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman would be assassinated on August 15, 1975.
