Early Years
Born in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Mowahid Shah spent part of his boyhood schooling in Jakarta, Indonesia, during the Sukarno era. A student from Forman Christian College, he went on to earn his LL.B. from Punjab University Law College. He is the son of Colonel Amjad Hussain Sayed, who is the last surviving delegate, sent by poet-philosopher Allama Iqbal, to the Muslim League session in 1937 in Lucknow, which laid the foundations of the Pakistan Movement.
As a student leader at George Washington University in the 1970s, Mowahid Shah was Editor of the "Harbinger", a student publication. He successfully defended in student court a resolution issued by the university's International Student Society in support of international human rights. In his LL.M. thesis, cited by a UN report, he posited the right under international law of the Palestinian people to resist forcible military occupation.
Mowahid Shah was one of the first Pakistani lawyers admitted to the District of Columbia and U.S. Supreme Court Bars.
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