[3] He was also a Colombo Plan journalism scholar in Australia in 1955 and worked with the Sydney Morning Herald and the Melbourne Observer.

[citation needed] On 7 October 1958, he was arrested late at night near Purana Paltan, Dhaka, his then place of residence, while returning home after finishing some routine desk work.

[citation needed] He left Dawn in 1974 to move to Dubai to help launch the Khaleej Times, the first English newspaper in the Middle-East, where with Mahmoud Haroon, he rose to become one of its establishing editors.

He also published articles on the subject in some of the world's most prestigious related magazines, including Britain's Gibbons Stamp Monthly and America's Scott catalogue.

On 7 December 2008, Zahedi died at age 79 in his bed of natural causes, succumbing to a prolonged paralysis in Karachi, Pakistan.

[1][5] Pakistani Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani expressed grief over his death, and offered condolences to his family.