Syed Murad Ali Shah

Syed Murad Ali Shah (Urdu: سید مراد على شاه‬‎) is a Pakistani politician and structural engineer who is the current Chief Minister of Sindh and a member of the Sindh Assembly.^[2][3][4]

Early life and education

Shah was born in Karachi to Syed Abdullah Shah is Chief Minister of Sindh. Shah did his Matriculation from Saint Patrick's High School, Intermediate from D. J. Sindh Government Science College^[5] in Karachi and admitted at the engineering programme at the NED University of Engineering and Technology. Shah graduated with B.E. in Civil engineering and was a silver medalist upon his graduation from the NED University of Engineering and Technology. After earning the Quaid-e-Azam scholarship, he went to United States and attended Stanford University in California where he completed his M.Sc. in structural engineering. He completed a second master's from Stanford University two years later in economic system where again he was on an international scholarship.^[6]

From 1986 till 1990, Shah pursued his engineering career with the Government of Sindh as he served as water engineer at the WAPDA in Lahore, and later went to join the Port Qasim Authority in Karachi. In addition, he also served as city engineer for Hyderabad's Development Authority before joining the corporate staff he served as an engineer at Wapda, Port Qasim Authority and the Hyderabad Development Authority before joining Citibank.^[7] Shah then went on to work for Citibank in Sindh and in London. He also worked at the Gulf Investment Corporation in Kuwait.

Political career

He became member of the Provincial Assembly of Sindh in 2002 for the first time from PS-77 Jamshoro-cum-Dadu (Old Dadu III).^[8] Shah was elected to the Sindh Assembly in 2008 as a member of the Pakistan Peoples Party and served as the National Minister for Irrigation under Syed Qaim Ali Shah's cabinet, and in 2013 was elevated as the National finance minister.^[9] In July 2016, Shah was elected to the Chief Minister's Office.^[10]

He served as Minister for Irrigation (Sindh ) and Finance Minister of Sindh before elevation to the Chief Minister of Sindh in 2016. Shah was barred from contesting the 2013 despite giving up his Canadian citizenship. After proving to the courts that he did not hold Canadian nationality, Shah was able to run in the election. He was elected to the Sindh Assembly for a third consecutive time. He was subsequently assigned the finance ministry in the provincial cabinet.^[7]

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