Syed Fakhar Ali Shah

Syed Fakhar Ali Shah (born 2 July 1985) is a Pakistani baseball manager, administrator, and former player. He is the manager of the Pakistan national baseball team and former president of Pakistan Federation Baseball.

Fakhar's father, Syed Khawar Shah, was the founder of the Pakistan's baseball federation as part of the build-up to the 1992 Olympic Games, where baseball would be featured as a medal sport for the first time (though Pakistan did not qualify). Shah played as catcher for the national team in 2003; he later said he took the position because no one else wanted it. Fakhar first became an at-large member of the Baseball Federation of Asia in 2019. He was appointed to the World Baseball Softball Confederation Member Development Commission by Riccardo Fraccari in 2022. In 2023, he signed a partnership agreement between the Pakistani baseball federation and Baseball United, an organization promoting professional baseball in the United Arab Emirates and the broader West Asia region. He was elected president of the South Asian Baseball and Softball Federation, at the organization's second general council in Bangkok in October 2025. Fakhar has criticized the Pakistani government for failing to invest in baseball, with The Friday Times noting that the country's baseball federation is "almost entirely self-funded." In response to the ban, Fakhar said the federation had applied for several permits with no response, adding that missing the events would have caused Pakistan to lose points in the WBSC World Rankings; he noted that Pakistan in 2023 were ranked 22nd in the world, but the lack of funding to participate in international events saw the national team drop to 48th. The federation voted to back Fakhar, noting that he had not been disciplined by the Pakistan Olympic Association. Nevertheless, he left his position of federation secretary in November 2025.