[2] Zuhair became a Member of Parliament from the People's Alliance National List in the Government of Kumaratunga and served as MP from 1990 to 2000.
[2] Following the victory of Mahinda Rajapaksa in the 2005 Presidential Election, he was appointed as Chairman of the state-owned Media Rupavahini Corporation.
[3] During his tenure as an Ambassador to Iran, he played key role in arranging an Iranian credit line that helped Sri Lanka to obtain fuel supplies on concessionary terms at a critical stage of the war against the LTTE.
From 1994 to 2000 Zuhair was a Member of Parliament on the Peoples’ Alliance National List in the Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga government nominated by the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC).
In 2006, Mr Zuhair was appointed Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Iran where he served the country till 2012.