Syed Naveed Qamar

Syed Naveed Qamar is a senior politician at Pakistan Peoples Party, He was elected as MNA in 2008 elections and was chosen as the Federal Minister for Ports and Shipping.

He has served as Federal Minister for Finance and Privatisation in 1996, Chairman, Privatisation Commission in 1993, and Provincial Minister Sindh for Information in 1990.

Syed Naveed Qamar is one of the top leaders in Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians (PPPP). He currently holds the position of Member Central Executive Committee in the party and wasp reviously elected with PPP ticket as MPA, Sindh (1988-1990), MNA (1990-1993), MNA (1993-1996) and MNA (1997-1999).

Syed Naveed Qamar was born in Karachi on September 22, 1955. He completed his B.Sc (Hons) in 1976 from Manchester University, U.K followed by an MS in Management from Northrop University, U.S.A in 1978 and MBA from California State University, USA in 1979.

For a short time, in 1988-89, Naveed Qamar also served as part of Computer Science faculty at National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, then called FAST-ICS. He taught the BASIC language to the first batch of students at FAST.

<h3>Political Inheritance
</h3>Syed Naveed Qamar’s maternal grandfather, Syed Miran Muhammad Shah, was the 2nd Speaker of the Sindh Assembly and 1st speaker after Sindh’s accession to Pakistan in 1947. Miran Muhammad Shah was also the 1st ambassador of Pakistan to Spain.
His father, Qamar Uzaman Shah, served as a deputy speaker of Sindh Assembly & Senator during Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto’s rule. He is a leading figure of Minhaj-ul-Quran International Sindh.

Syed Naveed Qamar is married and has three daughters and a son. He lived in the U.K for 3 years for the purpose of studies and in U.S.A for 9 years.
Mr. Naveed Qamar presented the first Budget of PPP government in 2008.

Naveed Qamar is among those parliamentarians who have always raised their voice against General Musharraf’s regime on the floor of the house as well as outside.

In an Interview Mr. Syed Naveed Qamar gave the following views.

The News on Sunday: You are here to participate in a seminar on ‘Revisiting Sixty Years of Independence’. How do you analyse these years as pre and post Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) eras?

Syed Naveed Qamar:The 1947 independence movement was originally led by students and people from the middle class. Later it was adopted by the landed class and during partition it was actually dominated by those who were present in the assemblies of the day. Those people were basically not equipped to tackle institutions like bureaucracy and the military; that was the reason that power struggle in Pakistan ended up with the military on the power seat on a permanent basis.

The anti-Ayub movement in the late 1960s was also a genuine struggle once again led by students and later joined by labour and other groups of society. That movement was really the basis on which PPP was created.

But General Zia’s martial law once again brutally broke aspirations of people, raised by the ‘awami’ style politics. He also completely debased the Pakistani society. The deliberate use of the religious card which was well-funded by the regime as well as the West left very bad effects on the society and it will take a very long time to heal. What we see today is culmination of the steps taken during those two decades. One following the path of Zia and ending up in Lal Masjid and the other taking its inspiration from Awami politics and ending up in the restoration of Chief Justice

Syed Naveed Qamar Contact Details
Unit No. 2, Latifabad, Hyderabad;?
0221-860892, 021-5874751, 5868850, 0300-5000222, E-mail:? naveedqamar @ yahoo.com