[1][2][3][4] He, along his wife Fatima Shah, gave a protest sit-in for 285 days near the Parliament of the Republic of India in defiance of the threats against his life committed by the Pakistan High Commission and its facilitation by the Indian authorities.

He has also served at the University of Karachi as a Coordinator for National Institute of Excellence of Higher Education, a project by PEP Foundation,[7] and was Program Manager with Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum.

[8][9] During 2004–2006, he played an important role in strengthening coastal communities movement for livelihood, ecological and water rights of the Indus River Delta region.

[10] He is vocal for secularism, civil democratic rule in Pakistan with the minimised role of non-civil actors in the statecraft[11] and policies and always attempting to create peace[12] and 'one Southasia'[13] constituency among the opinion makers and activists in Sindh.

[19] Shah has also been actively engaged in the civil society's initiatives against enforced disappearances in Sindh and Baluchistan and victimisation of peasants rights activists and agriculture labourers.

[25] In November 2011, he along with civil society activists from across the province launched a massive campaign against forced conversions, abductions and targeted murders of Hindus and other religious minorities in Sindh.

[31] Shah has written several books: His research studies and papers include "Indus Delta-An Environmental Assessment", "Race and Ethnicity in South Asia", "History of Sindhi Nationalism", and "Roots of Jainism in Sindh", besides many others.

He was a member of Bangladesh Bharat Pakistan Peoples Forum and International Society for Philosophers, Sheffield University, UK.