RECORDER REPORT

PESHAWAR: Former Governor Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Lt-General Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah (Retd) has been passed away. He was 70.

Born on 24th October 1949, Iftikhar Hussain Shah was commissioned in the Pakistan Army in October 1964 in 30th PMA Long Course and joined an anti-aircraft unit of the Regiment of Artillery.

He later joined and graduated from Army Aviation School to become a pilot in the army. In 1993, Iftikhar Hussain Shah served in Inter-Services Intelligence as the Deputy DG of External Wing under Lt Gen Javed Ashraf Qazi.

After his retirement from the Army in 2000, he was appointed Minister for Communications and later he became Governor of NWFP, a position which he held for a period of four and half years He had also served as an Ambassador in Turkey.

He has served as an advisor with UN in Pakistan. Presently he was working as the MD Zulfiqarabad Development Authority (ZDA).