Shah (20 July 1920 – 6 January 2009) was an Indian politician who was Chief Minister of the state of Jammu and Kashmir from 2 July 1984 to 6 March 1986.
He succeeded his brother-in-law Farooq Abdullah.
Shah's father-in-law was Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, the founder of the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference, of which Shah was once a senior member.
Shah died 6 January 2009 at the Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences in Srinagar.