Zakir Ali Zaidi
Syed Zakir Ali Zaidi was a retired Pakistani military officer who served as president of the National Defence University from 1 August 1989 to 18 June 1990.
Biography
Zaidi began his military career in 1954 with the Baloch Regiment. He commanded the XII Corps, and the II Corps. He retired from active duty in 1991 and subsequently served as the head of the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad.In 2008, he was part of a group of retired generals that called on Pervez Musharraf to resign, who had held power since a military coup in 1999.