Ayaz Latif Palijo (اياز لطيف پليجو) is a Pakistani politician, human rights lawyer, activist, writer & teacher. Paleejo was born in Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan, to a Baloch mother, minority & women's rights activist, writer & artist Jeejee Zarina Baloch & South Asian leftist Sindhi father Rasool Bux Palejo.
Ayaz Lateef Plejo is the President of Qomi Awami Tahreek (National Peoples Movement), Founder of Sindh Progressive Nationalist Alliance (SPNA). Palijo is frequently guest speaker & consultant of several international forums and organisations including Leadership for Environment and Development (LEAD), WCD. Ayaz Latif Pelijo was born in Hyderabad Sindh. He attended Model School, Old-campus, Hyderabad.
Under the guidance of his mother Zareena Balouch, he became fluent in Sindhi, Balochi & Urdu as a teenager, and later became conversant in English, Seraiki, Punjabi and Persian languages.
Palijo is a graduate of Civil Engineering from Mehran University of Engineering & a graduate of law from Sindh University, Jamshoro. He has done his graduation in environment and development from LEAD Int. Aiyaz also possess MSc in Rural development and secured 1st position in LL.M. across the whole of Sindh.
He founded Sujaag Bar Tahreek, Sindh Water Committee, Sindh Progressive Nationalist Alliance, Awami Lawyers Forum, Khidmat Foundation, Ilmi Adabi Forum, Doctors and Engineers Forum and Sindhi Nojawan Tahreek. He has introduced a new nonviolent trend of democratic struggles in Sindh by way of Mohabbat-e-Sindh rallies, Bedari March and Long Marches of QAT, SNT, SST, Sindhiani, Hari, Mazdoor Tehreek & SGST girls and students.
He is a well-known Sindhi leftist nationalist leader, active since 2007. His main contribution is to unite a large number of Sindhi nationalist & leftist activists under the banner of Awami Tahreek (Peoples Movement) and SPNA. He escaped assassination attempt on 22nd May 2012 in Lyari.
At present he is practising as a leading constitutional lawyer of Sindh High Court, Hyderabad. He was at the forefront of the lawyers' movement that restored Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, he offered court arrest after the imposition of emergency by General Pervez Musharraf & achieved fame as a supporter of the lawyers movement. He is so popular in Politics that even the followers of G M Syed, Bashir Khan Qureshi, Dr Qadir Magsi, Jalal Mahmood Shah, Imran Khan, Nawaz Sharif, Shafi Burfat, Asif Zardari, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto, Bilawal, Fatima, Ghinwa, Mumtaz, Marvi, Zulfiqar Ali Mirza, Uzair Jan Baloch, Siraj ul Haq, Sassui, Asfndyar Wali, Marwi, Naz, Maryam, Nusrat Abbasi, Shazia Mari, Ghazala Batool Siddiqui, Altaf Hussain, Balach, Akbar Bugti & members of PPP, PMLN, PTI, JSQM, League, MQM, pakhtun Taliban, JSMM, STP, JI, JUI, ANP and different muslims hindus groups of Jeay Sindh Seyed qaumi & peoples party love to listen to him live or on Geo, ARY, Aaj, Samaa, Jaag, Dunya, Dawn, KTN, Awaz, Mehran, Tez, Express, News One, Abb Takk TV.
