Saeen Ghulam Murtaza Syed | |
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غلام مرتضي سيد | |
Minister of Education of Sind | |
In office 18 March 1940 – 7 March 1941[1][2] | |
Premier | Mir Bandeh Ali Khan Talpur |
Governor | Lancelot Graham Hugh Dow |
Personal details | |
Born | Sann, Bombay Presidency, British India (present-day Sindh, Pakistan) | 17 January 1904
Died | Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan | 25 April 1995 (age 91)
Resting place | Sann, Sindh |
Children | Syed Amir Hyder Shah Syed Imdad Muhammad Shah Zarin Taj Shama Aimen Dr. Durreshahwar |
Parent | Syed Mohammed Shah Kazmi (father) |
Known for | Founder of Sindhi nationalism and Sindhudesh movement |
Ghulam Murtaza Syed (Sindhi: غلام مرتضيٰ سيد, 17 January 1904 – 25 April 1995),[3] known as G. M. Syed was a prominent Sindhi politician, who is known for his scholarly work,[4] passing only constitutional resolution in favor of the establishment of Pakistan from British India's Sindh Assembly (which is now Sindh Assembly) in 1943.[5] Later proposing ideological groundwork for separate Sindhi identity and laying the foundations of Sindhudesh movement.[6] He is regarded as one of the founding fathers of modern Sindhi nationalism.[7]
He was known as "Saeen" by his supporters.[8]
G.M Syed started his political career at the age of 16, when he organised Khilafat Conference at his hometown, Sann, on 17 March 1920.[9] Syed was one of the earliest Sindhi politician who sought the creation of Islamic Pakistan, and became a vocal supporter of the Two-Nation Theory, advocated by the Muslim League leader Muhammad Ali Jinnah; Syed Sindhi's religious zeal for a purely Islamic state is witnessed after the Manzilgah incident, where he wanted to cleanse Sindh of its Hindus, stating: "all Hindus shall be driven out of Sindh like the Jews from Germany".[10] However, once the independent nation was formed, he became a political prisoner of the state in 1948, due to differences with the country's leadership.[11][2] He restated the political implementation of Sufi ideologies which advocated for Islamic principles, secularism, Sindhi nationalism and laid the basis for Sindhudesh Movement.[12] He spent approximately thirty years of his life in imprisonment and house arrests for his political views.[13] He was entitled as the prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International in 1995.[14] He died during his house arrest in Karachi on 26 April 1995.[15]
he remained interned for over 30 years
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