Zahir Pajaziti (1 November 1962 – 31 January 1997) was one of the founders and early commanders of Kosovo Liberation Army.

[6] His father, Qerimi, and mother, Fatimja, both Albanian, had raised their five sons and two daughters with great difficulty, also enabling their education.

[3] In the 1981-1982 school year, Zahir Pajaziti enrolled in the English Language Department of the Faculty of Philology of the University of Pristina.

[3] After the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1992, Pajaziti remained in Kosovo while battles raged in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

[1] Pajaziti, Sali Çekaj and Adem Jashari were the leaders of the first Kosovo military groups, which were trained in Albania in 1991–1992.

He was also aware that in Drenica region, the KLA commanders, led by Adem Jashari and his fighters were active for the same cause.

He had illegally crossed the border between then-Serbia and Montenegro and Albania multiple times, in order to prepare the young soldiers of KLA.

On January 31 1997, the Serbian police successfully tracked the movements of Pajaziti and his two soldiers, Zejnullahu and Edmond Hoxha.