[1][2][3] Shehabuddin was born on 11 April 1937 in Chandnaish, Chittagong in the then British India.
He was posted in the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi in 1971 as the second secretary.
At the start of the Bangladesh Liberation War, he resigned from the Pakistan Foreign Service on 6 April 1971 and pledged allegiance to Bangladesh, along with his colleague Amjadul Huq.
After the independence of Bangladesh, he served as the country's ambassador to the United States, France, Spain, Poland, Colombia, Mexico, Guatemala, and Kuwait.
[7] In 2006, UPL published Shehabuddin's autobiography, There and Back Again: A Diplomat's Tale.