Shah Nawaz Junejo

Junejo started his political career from local government and was elected a district council member in 1962.^[1] He joined the Pakistan People's Party in the late 1960s.^[1]

In the 1988 Pakistani general election, he was elected to the National Assembly from NA-181 (Sanghar-II). He defeated former prime minister Muhammad Khan Junejo in that contest.^[2][3] After his election, he later served as a minister of state in the cabinet of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.^[4] He also remained a senator.^[1][5]

Junejo remained active in opposition politics during the Movement for the Restoration of Democracy. He imprisoned during the MRD movement.^[6]

Junejo belonged to Sanjar Khan Junejo village near Tando Adam in present-day Sanghar District.^[1] He was the father of Roshan Din Junejo and Muhammad Khan Junejo. His grandson Salahuddin Junejo was elected to the National Assembly in 2024.^[5][7][8]

Junejo died of cardiac failure at a hospital in Singapore on 14 July 2005. He was buried at his ancestral graveyard in Sanjar Khan Junejo village near Tando Adam.^[1]