
Early life and education įaesal Shah was born in the Sogam area of Lolab Valley, located in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir. In August 2022, he was posted as Deputy Secretary in Union Ministry for Tourism.

He was reinstated in Indian Administrative Service in April 2022 by the Modi government.

He left politics on 10 August 2020 and quit the JKPM. Shortly after on 16 March 2019 he announced his own political party, the Jammu and Kashmir People's Movement (JKPM). On 4 February 2019, Shah Faesal began his momentary political life by giving a public speech in his hometown of Kupwara. He tendered his resignation from the Indian bureaucracy in protest on 9 January 2019, citing "unabated killings" in Kashmir among other things, which, reportedly, was "never accepted" by the central government and he even withdrew the same later. Shah Faesal (born ) is an Indian bureaucrat currently posted as Deputy Secretary in the Ministry of Culture (India) In 2010, he became the first Kashmiri to top the Indian Civil Services Examination. Fulbright fellow at Harvard Kennedy School.Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir.

