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Syed Yahya Shah سيد يحي (also called Aga Yahya) was a Pakistani politician and scholar from Gilgit-Baltistan.

Early life

Shah was born in Minapin, Nagar District of Gilgit-Baltistan Pakistan. He acquired his early education in Nomal and Gilgit, and attended high school in Astor and Kashmir. He then studied at Edwardes College in Peshawar. On return to Gilgit he taught at High School Gilgit. Syed Yahya Shah passed away on Sunday 11 April 2021 at 3:45 AM DHQ Hospital Gilgit.

Political career

The people of Nagar elected him to become the first elected Member of Legislative Assembly of Gilgit–Baltistan from Nagar.

He actively played a role in making Hunza–Nagar a District in Gilgit–Baltistan.

Charity work

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In addition to his political career, Syed Yahya worked as pioneer nature conservation activist in Gilgit–Baltistan. He was the first person to introduce Trophy Hunting Programme(THP) in Bar Valley in Nagar, which was supported by IUCN, WWF and Government of Pakistan and replicated by other communities and villages of Gilgit–Baltistan. He saved several snow leopards in Nagar when they were caught to kill by villagers.

Syed has also worked on various charity projects to improve his home region. He initiated the connecting a warm spring in Diater Mountains in the Karakoram to Bar Valley in Nagar in collaboration with WWF which not only saved fuel energy but also decreased diseases in women caused by the washing of clothes in cold water during cold weather. As Minapin Community Leader, in Minapin village he motivated Aga Khan Rural Support Programme to initiate a project which restored a deserted mountain called Khaiadar where the canal irrigating to the pastures and agricultural fields at this mountain was cut off from the source of water-glacier by climate changed recession of glacier. He led the community to install a pipeline which reconnected broken water channel after 150 years of desertification. Syed Yahya Shah participated in a historical documentation of customary laws in nature conservation in Gilgit–Baltistan, a project of IUCN and the government of Pakistan.

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Publications

References

1. Correspondent, The Newspaper's (12 April 2021). "GB politician Yahya Shah dies at 93". DAWN.COM. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
2. "In Minapin valley, mountaineers find a bracing resort". The Express Tribune. 2 July 2012.
3. Dawn (12 April 2021). "GB Politician Yahya Shah dies at 93". Dawn.
4. Ghulam Rasool, originally published by Tiger paper, Vol XXI, Jan–Mar 1994, snowleopardnetwork.org
5. Ben Cahoon, WorldStatesmen.org. "Pakistan Princely States". Retrieved 3 October 2007.

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• 1920s births
• 2021 deaths
• People from Hunza-Nagar District
• Pakistani conservationists
• Pakistani nature writers
• People from Gilgit-Baltistan
• Members of the Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly