Syed Munir Hussain Gilani is a Pakistani politician, who fought for democracy in Pakistan all his life. He has remained the Federal Minister for Education in the interim government of Prime Minister Balkh Sher Mazari. He started his political career as PPP worker from Model Town Lahore and actively took part in election campaign of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's 1970 and 1977 elections from Lahore constituency. Later impressed by political ideology of Imam Khomeini, founder of Islamic Revolution in Iran, Munir Gilani joined Tehreek-e-Nifaz-e-Fiqah-e-Jafaria Pakistan under the leadership of Mufti Jafar Hussain. After demise of Mufti Jafar Hussain on August 29, 1983, Supreme Council of TNFJ elected Parachinar based 38-years old young Shia cleric Allama Arif Hussain Al-Hussaini as president on February 10, 1984, in Imambargah Qasar-e-Zainab, Bhakar, Punjab. Syed Munir Gilani was the first leader to host Allama Arif ul Hussaini in Lahore and manage hold a Press Conference at Lahore's local hotel. He was nominated Head of Political Cell of the TNFJ Punjab chapter and played an active role at MRD platform against the Military dictatorship of General Zia ul Haq. After martyrdom of Allama Arif ul Hussaini on August 5, 1988, close aid of the deceased and Senior Vice President Allama Syed Sajid Ali Naqvi was elected as third Head of TNFJ, the largest Shia religio-political party in Pakistan. Munir Gilani remained very close to Allama Sajid Ali Naqvi as well and helped manage TNFJ alliance with Pakistan Awami Tehreek of Dr Tahir ul Qadri and Tehreek-e-Istiqlal of Air Marshal Asghar Khan (late). The People's Democratic Alliance (PDA) was also his brain child that managed 4-parties' electoral alliance comprising PPP, Tehreek-e-Istiqlal, PML-Qasim and Tehreek-e-Nifaz-e-Fiqah-e- Jafaria. He also emphasised to change nomenclature of TNFJ to Tehreek-e-Jafaria Pakistan (TJP). Later, it was changed by the permission of Quaid-e-Millat-e-Jafaria Pakistan, Allama Sajid Ali Naqvi and approved by executive bodies, Supreme Council and Central Council of the Tehreek. Munir Gilani is the former Deputy Secretary General of the Pakistan Awami Ittehad. He has been arrested on innumerable occasions during his long political career in the struggle for revival of democracy. After the government of General Zia-ul-Haq went back on its promise to hold general elections in the country, leading political parties got together under the banner of the MRD for the purpose of holding general elections, restoration of fundamental civil and democratic rights, removal of restrictions placed on the free functioning of