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Zulfiqar Shah
Zulfiqar Shah (Sindhi ذوالفقار شاہ Hindi जुल्फिकार शाह) is a civil rights activist, journalist and writer of Sindhi origin. He was forced by the Pakistan Army to unlawfully leave the country and close down The Institute for Social Movements, Pakistan in May 2012.[citation needed] He resettled in Nepal, where the UNHCR approved him for refugee status.[citation needed] In Kathmandu, he began freelancing with newspapers and websites on the issues of Pakistan, particularly concerning Sindh and the restive province of Balochistan. He was insurrected in his house in Kathmandu and was given heavy metal poison by the Pakistani intelligence agency ISI with local facilitation;[citation needed] however he was rescued by local doctors. He was forced to leave Nepal,[citation needed] thus he left for Pakistan in December 2013. In Pakistan, he again was persecuted and threatened to be killed. He went to India for medical treatment on 11 February 2013, where he was not only denied appropriate health treatment at the behest of the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi, but was also harassed by high commission officials. He, along his wife Fatima Shah, gave a protest sit-in for 285 days near the Parliament of the Republic of India in defiance of the threats against his life committed by the Pakistan High Commission and its facilitation by the Indian authorities.
On his website, Shah has claimed that he and his wife Ghulam Fatima Shah were inserted a gadget / chip in their body by USA and India on the demand of Pakistan. He has also claimed that through that chip he has been tortured and attempts of murders were carried by Pakistani officials.
Shah was born in a rural town Radhan of district Dadu, Sindh province in Pakistan. Formally educated in Philosophy as well as Development Studies, he was executive director at The Institute for Social Movements, Pakistan and editor, The Social Movements journal during 2010 – 2012.
Previously he led the Sindh province chapter of South Asia Partnership Pakistan. He has also served at the University of Karachi as a Coordinator for National Institute of Excellence of Higher Education, a project by PEP Foundation, and was Program Manager with Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum. He has been engaged with political and democratic rights activism and Social movements in Sindh since last two decades.
Shah was active part of child rights activism in Sindh during 1988–1994. Later on, he played an active role in the working class rights, national and ethnic liberties and democratic rights.
During 2004–2006, he played an important role in strengthening coastal communities movement for livelihood, ecological and water rights of the Indus River Delta region.
He is vocal for secularism, civil democratic rule in Pakistan with the minimised role of non-civil actors in the statecraft and policies and always attempting to create peace and 'one Southasia' constituency among the opinion makers and activists in Sindh.
Since 2006, he is organising and actively advocating peasants' rights movement in Sindh. In February 2009, he organised and led Sindh Peasants Long March for the land rights from Hyderabad to Sindh Assembly, Karachi that was participated by the thousands of peasants from across the province and was carried out for 12 days through 350 kilometres. He has been staunch advocate for land reforms in Pakistan.
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Zulfiqar Shah
Zulfiqar Shah (Sindhi ذوالفقار شاہ Hindi जुल्फिकार शाह) is a civil rights activist, journalist and writer of Sindhi origin. He was forced by the Pakistan Army to unlawfully leave the country and close down The Institute for Social Movements, Pakistan in May 2012.[citation needed] He resettled in Nepal, where the UNHCR approved him for refugee status.[citation needed] In Kathmandu, he began freelancing with newspapers and websites on the issues of Pakistan, particularly concerning Sindh and the restive province of Balochistan. He was insurrected in his house in Kathmandu and was given heavy metal poison by the Pakistani intelligence agency ISI with local facilitation;[citation needed] however he was rescued by local doctors. He was forced to leave Nepal,[citation needed] thus he left for Pakistan in December 2013. In Pakistan, he again was persecuted and threatened to be killed. He went to India for medical treatment on 11 February 2013, where he was not only denied appropriate health treatment at the behest of the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi, but was also harassed by high commission officials. He, along his wife Fatima Shah, gave a protest sit-in for 285 days near the Parliament of the Republic of India in defiance of the threats against his life committed by the Pakistan High Commission and its facilitation by the Indian authorities.
On his website, Shah has claimed that he and his wife Ghulam Fatima Shah were inserted a gadget / chip in their body by USA and India on the demand of Pakistan. He has also claimed that through that chip he has been tortured and attempts of murders were carried by Pakistani officials.
Shah was born in a rural town Radhan of district Dadu, Sindh province in Pakistan. Formally educated in Philosophy as well as Development Studies, he was executive director at The Institute for Social Movements, Pakistan and editor, The Social Movements journal during 2010 – 2012.
Previously he led the Sindh province chapter of South Asia Partnership Pakistan. He has also served at the University of Karachi as a Coordinator for National Institute of Excellence of Higher Education, a project by PEP Foundation, and was Program Manager with Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum. He has been engaged with political and democratic rights activism and Social movements in Sindh since last two decades.
Shah was active part of child rights activism in Sindh during 1988–1994. Later on, he played an active role in the working class rights, national and ethnic liberties and democratic rights.
During 2004–2006, he played an important role in strengthening coastal communities movement for livelihood, ecological and water rights of the Indus River Delta region.
He is vocal for secularism, civil democratic rule in Pakistan with the minimised role of non-civil actors in the statecraft and policies and always attempting to create peace and 'one Southasia' constituency among the opinion makers and activists in Sindh.
Since 2006, he is organising and actively advocating peasants' rights movement in Sindh. In February 2009, he organised and led Sindh Peasants Long March for the land rights from Hyderabad to Sindh Assembly, Karachi that was participated by the thousands of peasants from across the province and was carried out for 12 days through 350 kilometres. He has been staunch advocate for land reforms in Pakistan.
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