Sharjeel Memon


Sharjeel Inam Memon is a Pakistani politician who has been a Member of the Provincial Assembly of Sindh since 2008. Memon has been a senior minister and currently heads the ministries of transport and mass transit, excise, taxation, narcotics and control department.

Early life and education

He was born on 14 June 1974 in Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan in a Sindhi Memon family. He has also been the chief of the organization "Sindh Memon Ittehad" since 2023.
He earned the degree of Master of Arts in economics from the University of Sindh and a Bachelor of Engineering in Civil Technology from the Mehran University of Engineering and Technology.

Political career

He was elected to the Provincial Assembly of Sindh as a candidate for Pakistan Peoples Party for PS-62 Tharparkar III in a by-election held in June 2008. In March 2011, he was inducted into the provincial cabinet of Sindh of chief minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah and was made the minister for information and archives where he continued to serve until resigning in November 2011. In June 2012, he rejoined the provincial cabinet and was re-appointed as the minister for information.
He was re-elected to the Provincial Assembly of Sindh as a candidate for PPP for PS-50 in the 2013 Pakistani general election. He was inducted into the Provincial Sindh cabinet of chief minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah and was again appointed as the minister for information and archives. In a cabinet reshuffle in July 2015, he was made the minister for local bodies with the additional portfolio of archives and works and services.
In December 2015, he was removed from the provincial cabinet while he was outside Pakistan. In October 2017, he was arrested by the National Accountability Bureau on corruption charges. In February 2018, he was indicted in the corruption case. However, he was granted bail by the Sindh High Court on 25 June 2019. The two-member bench headed by Justice KK Agha and comprising Justice Omar Sial accepted Memon's plea. During the hearing, the investigation officer conceded that it has not been proven that Memon received kickbacks from the deal, but used his position of power in an unjust manner.
He was re-elected to the Provincial Assembly of Sindh as a candidate of PPP from Constituency PS-63 Hyderabad-II in the 2018 Pakistani general election.
In 2021, he was named in the Pandora Papers, a financial leak which revealed the undisclosed offshore accounts of prominent people worldwide.