Syed Jalal Mehmood Shah

Syed Jalal Mehmood Shah
Native name	سيد جلال محمود شاهه
Born	Jajal Mehmood Shah
Occupation	Politician
Years active	1964–present

Syed Jalal Mehmood Shah, (Sindhi: سيد جلال محمود شاهه‎) , is a politician from Pakistan. He is the grandson of Sindh's national arch-leader, statesman and philosopher Saen (سائين) G. M. Syed (Ghulam Murtaza Shah Syed) and the son of politician Imdad Mohammad Shah. He remained in companionship of his grandfather Saen G. M. Syed since his childhood. Like his grandfather and father; Shah was out front in social activities and well-being and then, following the footsteps of his father, he participated in politics.

Jalal Mehmood Shah passed five classes of primary education and 6th class of secondary education at Sann,he got further education from 7th class to Intermediate at the Cadet College Petaro. He got a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) from Government College Nawabshah in 1986.

Shah participated as a student in 1983's Movement for the Restoration of Democracy 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 pol ician|independent candidate]] and was elected as deputy speaker 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 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, which affirmed his powers.

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