She was the first elected female General Secretary of Sindh University Teachers association (SUTA) and was re-elected for a record further four terms of office.
They alleged this was a response to them protesting against the vice chancellor, who they claimed was involved in murders of at least five people on the campus.
[4] Mallah has been part of the Programme Management Committee of the Khanabadosh Writers’ Cafe[10] opened in 2015, in Sindh Museum, Hyderabad, as a place to promote free thought and pluralism.
[14][15] For the last twenty years, Mallah and Sindhu have faced threats from men in academia and landlords due to their activism.
[16][17] In 2020, the International Federation for Human Rights issued an urgent appeal for intervention in a smear campaign against Mallah.