He was killed in a situation marred with confusion along with Khaled Mosharraf on 7 November 1975 by proponents of a counter coup led by Colonel Abu Taher.

He graduated from Pakistan Military Academy and commissioned as an Artillery officer in the 23rd Peshawar Mountain Battery (Frontier Force) in 1965.

[3][5] Major Haider arrived in Bangladesh from India in a helicopter with freedom fighter and political adviser of Sector 2 and 3, R. K. Chowdhury, on 14 December in Comilla.

After the Independence of Bangladesh, he was promoted to Major and made the commanding officer of 13 East Bengal Regiment, Savar Cantonment in 1972.

He was in Dhaka with his batman, Naik Shamsul Haq, Bir Protik for personal reasons on 3 November when Major General Khaled Mosharraf launched a coup to remove the assassins of Sheikh Mujib from power.

According to Captain (Rtd) Sitara Rahman (Bir Protik, also sister of Major Haider), General Osmani earlier advised Haider to approach Major General Zia together with Khaled Mosharraf, for hope of negotiation, reminding him that all of them had fought together hand in hand in the 1971 war.

However, in a fast moving spiral of events, Haider along with Mosharraf and Colonel Huda, along with their batmen, were killed by few army officers, early hours on 7 November.