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{{short description|Pakistani politician}}
{{Unreferenced|date=November 2021}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Pir Ali Muhammad Rashdi
| image =
| image_size = 190px
| caption =
| birth_date = {{birth date|1905|08|05|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Village Bahman, District [[Larkana]], [[Sindh]], [[Pakistan]]
| death_date = {{death date|1987|03|14|mf=y}}
| death_place = [[Karachi]], [[Pakistan]]
}}

'''Pir Ali Muhammad Rashidi''' ({{lang-ur|'''پیر علی محمد راشدی'''}} August 5, 1905–March 14, 1987) was a Pakistani [[politician]], [[scholarly method|scholar]], [[bureaucrat]], [[journalist]], and [[writer]]. He was from Rashidi Syed and the elder brother of [[scholar]] Pir [[Hassam-ud-Din Rashidi]].

== Early life ==
His father Pir Muhammad Hamid Shah lived in Bahman village, [[Ratodero Taluka]], [[Larkana District]], [[Sindh]]. Pir Shahab got his early education from Molvi Muhammad Soomar and Molvi Muhammad Sidiq. He taught himself [[Persian language|Persian]], [[Urdu]] and [[English language|English]]. He also studied English with Marmaduke Pickthall.

==Career==
Rashidi started his career as a [[journalist]] for the ''Sindh News'' newspaper in 1924. He was appointed as the secretary of [[Mohammad Ayub Khuhro]] in 1927. He was appointed editor of ''Al Rashid'' in 1928 at [[Sukkur]]. He served as editor of ''[[Al Amin]]''. He started the newspaper ''Sitar-e-Sindh'' in 1934. In 1948, he became the editor of the English-language newspaper ''Sindh Observer''. He served as the president of the Pakistan Newspapers Editors Association.

===Politics===
Rashidi started his political career in 1926 by joining the Sindh Muhammadan Association where he fought for the election of Sindh in [[Bombay]]. In 1934 he joined the Peoples Party of [[Sir Shahnawaz Bhutto]]. He is considered to be a founder of the Sindh Ithad Party. He joined the [[All-India Muslim League|Muslim League]] in 1938 where he supported the [[Pakistan movement|Pakistani cause for independence]] by holding the positions of Secretary of the Sindh Provincial Muslim League and Secretary of the Foreign Committee. According to the late Yusuf Abdullah Haroon (an elder statesman of Pakistan), Rashidi was involved in the drafting of the [[Pakistan Resolution]] of 1940, also known as the Lahore Resolution. After 1947, he was instrumental in reinstating the [[throne|Gaddi]] of [[Pir Pagara]] while ignoring the Frontier Regulation. He was elected [[Member of Provincial Assembly|MPA]] in the [[Sindh Assembly]] in the election of 1953, thereafter appointed Minister of Revenue. In the era of [[Mohammad Ayub Khuhro]], he served as the Minister of Health, Revenue and Information. He also served as the Federal Minister for Information under Prime Minister [[Chaudhry Muhammad Ali]].

===Diplomat and author===
He served as Pakistan's ambassador to the [[Philippines]] from 1957 to 1961 and was [[Doyen of the diplomatic corps|Doyen of the Diplomatic Corps]] there. He also served as the [[Pakistani Ambassador to China|Ambassador to China]] for 10 months, during which he concluded negotiations for a border agreement between Pakistan and China that [[Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto]] later signed on behalf of Pakistan. His work and journalism also took him to [[Hong Kong]].

Rashidi wrote books in [[Sindhi language|Sindhi]], [[Urdu]] and [[English language|English]] on politics, biographies, local issues and diaries.

==Selected publications==
* ''Uhee Denhin Uhee Shenih'' (3 volumes)
* ''Jager Dari Jo Khatimo''
* ''Sindh jee Nain Wizarat''
* ''Boodin Ja Imdadi Masla''
* ''Cheen jee'' (diary)
* ''Imam Inqlaab''
* ''Sindh Ways and Days''

==See also==
* [[Hassam-ud-Din Rashidi]]
* [[Nabi Bux Khan Baloch]]
* [[Dr. Umar Bin Muhammad Daudpota]]
* [[Mirza Qalich Baig]]
* [[Allama I. I. Kazi]]
* [[Elsa Kazi]]
* [[Muhammad Ibrahim Joyo]]
* [[Ratodero]]
* [[Larkana]]
* [[Sindhi literature]]

==References==
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* ''Janab guzaryum jin sein'' By [[G. M. Syed]]
* ''Maro jee Malir Ja'' By Khadim Hussain Chandio
{{refend}}

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