Dr. Zahir Ali, born on 15th of January 1975 in Karnal Sher Killi, a town in the Swabi district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. From 1997 to 2000, he studied in the Physics Department, University of Peshawar, Pakistan and obtained Master degree in Physics. In August 2013, he got his PhD degree in land administration system from ITC - Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente, the Netherlands under a joint PhD scholarship program offered by Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan and the Netherlands Organization for International Cooperation in Higher Education (NUFFIC). His research interest is about the development of new techniques and methods in operational utilization of Geo-ICT in the field of Cadastre and Land Administration Systems. Currently he is working as Associate Professor and Head of Department in Institute of Space Technology (IST) at Department of Remote Sensing and Geo-information Sciences (RS&GISc) in Karachi.