Mahbub Jamal Zahedi
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| Native name | محبوب جمال زاہدی |
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Mabub Jamal Rahman 21 June 1929 Dhaka, Bengal Presidency, British India |
| Died | 7 December 2008 (aged 79) Karachi, Pakistan |
| Nationality | Pakistani |
| Alma mater | University of Dhaka |
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| Spouse(s) | Qamarunnisa Begum |
| Children | 3 |
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Mahbub Jamal Zahedi (21 June 1929 — 7 December 2008) was a veteran journalist and philatelist from Pakistan. During a career of nearly fifty years he served as editor of the Khaleej Times, Dubai, UAE as well the news editor and senior assistant editor of Dawn, Karachi, Pakistan.
Mahbub Jamal Zahedi was born in Dhaka in 1929. He was the son of Mizanur Rahman, the census commissioner in former East Pakistan. Zahedi studied English Literature at the University of Dhaka. He was married to Qamarunissa Begum, and had two daughters, Jamila and Selina, and a son, Dilawar. In 2003, Zahedi suffered a stroke that rendered him paralysed and bedridden.
Mahbub Jamal Zahedi had a journalistic career that spanned nearly five decades. He served in several newspapers in the then East Pakistan and West Pakistan in key positions, as well as going on assignments to Lagos, Nigeria; Sydney and Melbourne, Australia and Beijing, China. Due to his left-wing views, he was jailed on several occasions. He was also the founder and editor of the popular Bangladeshi periodical The Agatya, in then East Pakistan.
Zahedi started his career in the early 1950s working for the Pakistan Observer. By the early 1960s he held the position of assistant editor.
He was also a Colombo Plan journalism scholar in Australia in 1955 and worked with the Sydney Morning Herald and the Melbourne Gazette.
On 7 October 1958, he was arrested late at night near Purana Paltan, Dhaka, his then place of residence, while returning home after finishing some routine desk work. The reason for the arrest was the publication of a controversial story reading that the Constitution of Pakistan of 1956 had been abrogated by Iskandar Mirza.
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