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{{short description|Pakistani politician}}

{{Use Pakistani English|date=August 2019}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| office3 = [[Chief Minister of Sindh]]<ref>as Federal Minister for Sindh Affairs in 1999</ref>
| term_start4 = 6 April 1985
| term_end4 = 6 April 1988
| successor4 = [[Akhtar Ali Ghulam Kazi]]
| preceded4 = [[Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi]]
| name = Syed Ghous Ali Shah
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1934|01|01|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Khairpur, Pakistan|Khairpur]], [[Khairpur State]], [[British India]]
| office2 = 18th [[Ministry of Defence (Pakistan)|Minister of Defence]]
| term_start2 = 10 September 1991
| term_end2 = 17 July 1993
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| office1 = [[Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training (Pakistan)|Minister of Education]]
| term_start1 = 25 February 1997
| term_end1 = 18 June 1999
| office6 = Provincial Minister of Sindh for Education, Culture, Sports and Law
| term_start6 = 1981
| term_end6 = 1984
| office5 = Provincial Minister of Sindh for Law, Local Bodies & Rural Development
| term_start5 = 7 April 1984
| term_end5 = 5 April 1985
| office7 = [[Justice (title)|Justice]] of [[Sindh High Court]]
| term_start7 = 18 July 1979
| term_end7 = 5 April 1985
| primeminister1 = [[Nawaz Sharif]]
| primeminister2 = [[Nawaz Sharif]]
| predecessor2 = [[Benazir Bhutto]]
| successor2 = [[Aftab Shaban Mirani]]
| predecessor1 = [[Abida Hussain]] (caretaker)
}}
[[Sayyid|Syed]] '''Ghous Ali Shah''' ([[Urdu]]: '''سید غوث علی شاہ'''; born 1 January 1934) is a [[Pakistani people|Pakistani]] [[politician]] and [[jurist]]. He was [[Chief Minister of Sindh]], [[Pakistan]] from 1985 to 1988.<ref name=pulse/><ref name=Dawn/>

He has also remained the [[Defence Minister of Pakistan]] from 1991 to 1993 and the Education Minister of Pakistan from 1997 to 1999. He has been elected the Member of [[National Assembly of Pakistan]] from his native [[Constituency NA-215]] [[Khairpur]] as a result of the [[2013 Pakistani general election]].<ref name=pulse/><ref name=Dawn1/>

==Education==
Ghous Ali Shah was born in 1934.<ref name=Dawn1/> He received his secondary education in Naz High School, [[Khairpur, Pakistan|Khairpur]]. In the 1950s the School had qualified teachers from all over the country and was one of the most reputed institutions of [[Sindh]]. His name is engraved on a plaque and hung up on the "Distinguished Students" board. He graduated from the [[Sindh Muslim College]] of the [[University of Karachi]], Pakistan. He did his [[LLB]] from the [[Sindh Muslim Law College]] of the University of Karachi in 1957.

==Career==
Shah practiced [[law]] until 1979, becoming one of the best [[criminal law]] lawyers in the country. He was elected President of the District Bar Association [[Khairpur, Pakistan|Khairpur]] for record tenures of six years continuously. He was elected to the highest elected office of the Advocates of Pakistan as the Vice Chairman of the [[Pakistan Bar Council]] for two terms in 1975 and 1979, when he was elevated to the bench as [[Judge]] of the [[Sindh High Court]] at [[Karachi]].<ref name=pulse/><ref name=Dawn1/>

From 1981 to 1984 he was the provincial [[Minister (government)|Minister]] for [[Education]], [[Culture]], [[Sports]] and [[Law]], [[Government of Sindh]]. Then he was Minister for [[Law]], Local Bodies and [[Rural Development]] from 1984 to 1985. He retired from the [[Sindh High Court]] & re-entered politics. He was elected as member of the [[Provincial Assembly of Sindh]] and became leader of the house and [[Chief Minister of Sindh]], Pakistan, from 1985 to 1988.<ref name=Dawn1/>

During this period, he helped raise the status of the university for [[Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai University]] in [[Khairpur, Pakistan|Khairpur]] [[Sindh]] which was previously a sub-campus of the [[University of Sindh]]. This provided a lot of employment opportunities and he succeeded in providing a network of roads in the Province as well in his electoral area [[Khairpur, Pakistan|Khairpur]].

He was elected to the Parliament [[National Assembly of Pakistan]] in 1991 and became [[Defence Minister of Pakistan]] until 1993. He was again elected to the [[Provincial Assembly of Sindh]] as well as [[National Assembly of Pakistan]] in 1997 winning both the seats of the two houses. He resigned his Provincial Assembly seat and became the [[Minister for Education (Pakistan)]] until 1999. He was appointed Advisor to the Prime Minister of Pakistan for affairs of the province of Sindh with powers of the [[Chief Minister]] and Status of a Federal Minister in June 1999. He continued in this position until October 1999 when General [[Pervez Musharraf]] took over in the [[1999 Pakistani coup d'état]] on 12 October 1999, overthrowing the constitutionally elected government.<ref name=Dawn1/>

Syed Ghous Ali Shah is the Provincial head of the [[PML-N]] Sindh and has been elected for another 3-year term from 2006 to 2009 as Party President of the Sindh Province. He has been elected in this position on numerous occasions since 1986.<ref name=pulse/><ref name=Dawn1/>

It has been reported that Syed Ghous Ali Shah was one of the candidates considered by [[Pakistan Muslim League (N)]] for the position of [[President of Pakistan]] after the resignation of [[Pervez Musharraf]] in 2008.<ref name=Dawn1>{{cite web|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1024452 |title=Syed Ghous Ali Shah (profile)|author=Imran Kazmi|newspaper=Dawn (newspaper)|date=28 April 2013|accessdate=19 August 2019}}</ref>

In 2011, Ghous Ali Shah was living in Karachi and working with the PML (N) members to improve the party's condition in [[Sindh]], while also touring the province heavily to see where he can build up the same power he had back in 1997 when the [[Pakistan Muslim League (N)|PMLN]] had formed the provincial government.

==Scouting==
In 1993, he was awarded the ''[[Bronze Wolf]]'', the highest distinction of the [[World Organization of the Scout Movement]], by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world [[Scouting]].

From 1988 to 1994 and 1998 to 2000, he was Chief Commissioner of the [[Pakistan Boy Scouts Association]].

In 1992 he was elected as a member of the [[Asia-Pacific Scout Region]] committee until 1998.

He was also awarded the highest Scouting award, the Silver Tiger Award of Bangladesh Scouts, given to any world personality from [[Bangladesh]] in 1994. He was also awarded the highest Scouting award, the Silver Elephant of [[The Bharat Scouts and Guides]] of [[India]], in 1998.

==Awards and recognition==
In 1987, he wrote the 'Iqbal: Meeting Point of the East & West' lecture on [[Allama Iqbal]] which he delivered at the [[University of Heidelberg]], Germany. He had received the '''Allama Iqbal Centenary Gold Medal''' for his works and articles about Allama Iqbal in 1979.

==Personal life==
Syed Ghous Ali Shah went to [[London]] in October 2001 for medical treatment. He returned to Pakistan on 17 August 2008.<ref name=pulse>{{Cite web |url=http://www.onlinenews.com.pk/details.php?id=131972 |title=Ghous Ali Shah returns to homeland (Pakistan)|access-date=19 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928011111/http://www.onlinenews.com.pk/details.php?id=131972 |date=28 September 2011|archive-date=28 September 2011|url-status=dead }}</ref> His wife had died in 2007.<ref name=Dawn>[https://www.dawn.com/news/226833 SUKKUR: Wife of Ghous Ali Shah dies] Dawn (newspaper), Published 8 January 2007, Retrieved 19 August 2019</ref>

Syed Ghous Ali Shah has six children: Shabbir Hyder Shah, Ali Hyder Shah, Amir Hyder Shah (Late) & Syed Mohammad Safdar Hyder Shah alias Farhan Shah. He also has 2 married daughters.

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CatharineJorgens at 04:08, 26 May 2025