Zahir Pajaziti

Zahir Pajaziti
Statue of Pajaziti in Prishtina
Born	1 November 1962 Podujevë, Kosovo
Died	1997 Vushtrri, Kosovo
Awards	Hero of Kosovo

Zahir Pajaziti (born Orllan, Kosovo in 1962, died in Vushtrri, Kosovo in 1997) was a commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army.He was the first Commander of KLA, known as "First Gun of Freedom" .

In 2008, the president of Kosovo, Fatmir Sejdiu, declared Pajaziti a Hero of Kosovo.

After the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1992, he remained in Kosovo while warfare raged in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1997, he joined the Kosovo Liberation Army. Later that year, he was killed in a gunfight in Vushtrri with the Yugoslav army.

He is commemorated by a statue in Prishtina.