Syed Jalal Mehmood Shah, ( sd, سيد جلال محمود شاهه) , is a politician from Pakistan. He is the grandson of Sindh's national arch-leader, statesman and philosopher Sain (سائين) G. M. Syed (Ghulam Murtaza Shah Syed) and the son of politician Imdad Mohammad Shah. He remained in companionship of his grandfather Sain G. M. Syed since his childhood. Like his grandfather and father; Shah was out front in social activities and
well-being
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and then, following the footsteps of his father, he participated in
politics
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.
Education
Jalal Mehmood Shah passed five classes of
primary education
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and 6th class of
secondary education
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Bachelor of Arts
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(B.A.) from Government College
Nawabshah
Nawabshah ( sd, نوابشاھ, ur, ) is a tehsil and headquarters of the Shaheed Benazirabad District of Sindh province, Pakistan. This city is situated in the middle of Sindh province. It is the 27th largest city in Pakistan. Nawabshah Teh ...
in 1986.
Political career
Political head-start
Shah participated as a student in 1983's
Movement for the Restoration of Democracy
The Movement for the Restoration of Democracy (MRD) ( ur, اتحاد برائے بحالی جمہوریت), was a historically left-wing populism and massive socialist political alliance formed to oppose and end the military government of Preside ...
protests. He established the 'Young Progressive Thinker's Forum' with his like-minded comrades and became its leader. The Young progressive Thinker's Forum renamed 'Sindh Thinker's Forum' in 1996 and Shah became its first president. Syed Munir Shah Zakiri, Asif Baladi and other youngsters were his companions in the Sindh Thinker's Forum. several literary programmes were arranged as well as Sattar Rind and other youth books were published through the Forum.
Shah participated in the general elections of 1997 and was elected Sindh's Assembly member as an independent candidate and was elected as deputy
speaker
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of Sindh's Assembly on 22 February 1997. He was speaker of Sindh's Assembly from 30 October 1998 to 12 October 1999. In 1998, when the Federal
Government of Pakistan
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suspended the powers of Sindh's Assembly speaker and Sindh's assembly members meeting was called on a notification, he challenged this matter in the
Supreme Court of Pakistan
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Established in accordance to thePart VIIof the Constitution of Pakistan, it has ultimate a ...
, which affirmed his powers.
Shah formed the Sindh Democratic Alliance (S.D.A) in which he let in those politicians who were not part of
Pakistan Peoples Party
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; he did politics from SDA platform as well. On 9 December 2006, he called a grand convention at Jamshoro where he formed
Sindh United Party
The Sindh United Party (SUP) is a Sindhi nationalist political party that aims at rights of the Sindh people over their homeland in Pakistan. The partywas founded by former Deputy Speaker of Sindh Assembly Syed Jalal Mehmood Shah in 2006.
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(SUP) and he was made president of it; He has been still serving as a president of SUP. His party
manifesto
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is based on objectives of
Social justice
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in addition with prosper and autonomous Sindh.Shah has been chairman of ‘Shah Saddr Educational Society’, patron of ‘G.M Syed Foundation’ and member of Imdaad Foundation. He has published various books of his grandfather, G. M. Syed. He moved the G. M. Syed library to his residence at the ‘
G.M Syed Edifice
The Sindh United Party (SUP) is a Sindhi nationalist political party that aims at rights of the Sindh people over their homeland in Pakistan. The partywas founded by former Deputy Speaker of Sindh Assembly Syed Jalal Mehmood Shah in 2006.
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’ in
Jamshoro
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; where researchers are offered food and residence. Shah arranged conferences on Sindh’s issues of water and national production
natural resources
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Karachi Press Club
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Nawaz Sharif
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signed a memorandum and joint declaration of 7-points to form an alliance in the general elections of 2013. He also took a severe stand on the issue of IDP shifting from
North Waziristan
North Waziristan District ( ps, شمالي وزیرستان ولسوالۍ, ur, ) is a district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. It is the northern part of Waziristan, a mountainous region of northwest Pakistan, bordering Afghanis ...
Operation Zarb-e-Azb
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' being conducted against the terrorists there.
See also
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Sindh United Party
The Sindh United Party (SUP) is a Sindhi nationalist political party that aims at rights of the Sindh people over their homeland in Pakistan. The partywas founded by former Deputy Speaker of Sindh Assembly Syed Jalal Mehmood Shah in 2006.
Histo ...