The Sindh Democratic Alliance was a

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political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology ...

Pakistan Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 24 ...

. The party was created by the bureaucrat-turned-politician Imtiaz Shaikh in mid-2001. He was formerly a right-hand man of Jam Sadiq Ali, who was the

Chief Minister of Sindh Chief Minister of Sindh (, ur, —), is the elected head of government of Sindh. Syed Murad Ali Shah is a PPP politician and the current Chief Minister of Sindh. The Chief Minister is the head of the provincial government alongside the Chief ...

from 1990 until he was murdered in 1992. At the behest of the military government, he resigned from the government post and formed SDA.

Arbab Ghulam Rahim Arbab Ghulam Rahim ( ur, ; born 1 January 1957) is a Pakistani politician who served as the Chief Minister of the Government of Sindh from 2004 until 2007. Early life Arbab Ghulam Rahim was born in the Diplo Tehsil of Tharparkar District. Ar ...

, the former chief minister Sindh and former Speaker

Sindh Assembly The Provincial Assembly of Sindh ( ur, ) is a unicameral legislature of elected representatives of the Pakistani province of Sindh, and is located in Karachi, the provincial capital. It was established under Article 106 of the Constitution ...

Syed Jalal Mehmood Shah Syed Jalal Mehmood Shah, ( sd, سيد جلال محمود شاهه) , is a politician from Pakistan. He is the grandson of Sindh's national arch-leader, statesman and philosopher Sain (سائين) G. M. Syed (Ghulam Murtaza Shah Syed) and the ...

were also one of the leaders of SDA. At the

legislative elections A general election is a political voting election where generally all or most members of a given political body are chosen. These are usually held for a nation, state, or territory's primary legislative body, and are different from by-elections ...

, held on 20 October 2002, the party was part of the National Alliance, that won 4.6% of the popular vote and 16 out of 342 seats in the National Assembly. In May 2004, Sindh Democratic Alliance merged with PML (Q) along with other parties to form united

Pakistan Muslim League The Pakistan Muslim League ( ur, ; known as PML), is the name of several different Pakistani political parties that have dominated the right-wing platform in the country. The Muslim League (a different party) was the party of Pakistan’ ...

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Defunct political parties in Pakistan Politics of Sindh Political parties established in 2001 Political parties disestablished in 2004 {{Pakistan-party-stub