He played for his NJV School and also featured briefly in first class cricket as a wicketkeeper-batsman.

Now retired, Jaleel currently resides in Karachi, Sindh, where he spends his leisure time writing articles for various Pakistan newspapers, and is known as a popular columnist for Dawn and The Nation currently working with a private regional Sindhi TV channel as anchor program class room.

As a left-wing political analyst he has repeatedly returned to one theme: why partition was wrong.

[citation needed] In 2017, during Sindh Literature Festival, Jaleel read a story خدا گم ٿي ويو (Khuda gum thee wayo, The God disappeared).

His opponents used Twitter and other social media networks to get him arrested and hanged publicly.