Syed Imdad Mohammed Shah

Mr. Syed Imdad Mohammed Shah, a lawyer by profession and a well-known politician of Sindh. He has served Sindh Assembly twice as an opposition leader of Parliament. As a son and political student of late Saeen G. M. Syed he struggled for the Right of Sindhi peoples through his politics and other activism. Mr Shah remained at the forefront of all the democracy and civil rights movements in Pakistan. He worked very closely with Late Mujib Urehman in 1971 when he was a key member of Awami League in its Peasant Committee and was jailed several times by Pakistani establishment under the charge of supporting Sindh and Baloch liberation politics. In last decade he played a very imported rule in Pakistan’s Oppressed Nations’ Movement (PONM). Besides, playing a leading role in the political development in rural areas of Sindh by helping to open several middle and high schools. In 1999, a book was published based on the speeches and articles of Syed Imdad Mohammed Shah.

In 2000, he came to London to attend the World Sindhi Congress conference and to USA to attend WSI's conference in Washington, DC. He also testified in a sub-committee of US congress on issue of democracy and human rigts violation in Sindh, and in June 2000, he wrote a letter to overseas Sindhis.