Qaid-e-Inqlab Muhtaram Rasul Bux Palijo

Qaid-e-Inqlab Rasul Bux Palijo

Rasul Bux Palijo is a unique social scientist and a remarkable politician of South Asia whose work must be gauged by the extent to which his predictions are verified by history. In every nation some names stand out as the pioneers of uprisings, revolutions and movements and Rasul Bux Palijo is the most outstanding and exceptional thinker and leader of the twentieth century Sindh and Pakistan. Like all great intellectuals, scholars and leaders Palijo  has been at times misunderstood, misinterpreted and misjudged not only by his die hard adversaries, but by his admirers as well. Palijo, one of the great original thinker of Sindh, is known as the Quid-e-Inqilab (Leader of Revolution) because of the radical nationalist pursuits with

which he has been challenging the rigid mindset of the dictators of his times and because only a powerfully original mind can emancipate itself as completely as Palijo's did from the tyranny of accepted but already obsolescent ideas of south Asian Politics.

Rasool Bux Palijo is a prolific writer, scholar, man of letters, Supreme Court lawyer and a seasoned politician. He is president of Awami Tahreek. He is an outstanding scholar and does enjoy great expertise and deep insight in world history and peoples movements, politics and history of political thought, pure literature and criticism. He was born on 21-09-1930 at Jungshahi, district Thatta, Sindh, Pakistan. He got his primary education at local madarsa and got his secondary education at famous Sindh Madarsatul Islam, Karachi. He did his law graduation from Sindh Law College, Karachi. He not only led many democratic and peoples movements in Sindh and Pakistan, but also made enormous contributions in progressive movements at national and Asia-pacific level. He was secretary general of Awami National Party and

convener of Movement for Restoration of Democracy (MRD). He remained central

executive committee member of Asia Pacific Peace Forum (based in Manila). He has written more than twenty books on politics, pure literature (short stories), literary criticism, history and political thought. He is a widely traveled scholar and had visited several times almost all regions across the world. As a visiting faculty, he has been delivering lectures at Jawahar Lal Nehru New Delhi (JNU), Delhi University, University of Chicago, University of Cambridge, University of Sussex, University of Essex, Kinston University, University of Milwaukee, Institute of Oriental Studies-Moscow, Houston University and number of other global academic institutions through out the

world.