The International Secretariat of the Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz (JSMM) draws the urgent attention of the international community, the United Nations, human rights organizations, and global democratic institutions towards the continuing colonial subjugation, political repression, and human rights violations committed by the Pakistani state and its military establishment against the historic Sindhi Nation.
Sindh is a historically evolved Nation with a civilization that dates back thousands of years, contributing to humanity through its ancient culture, language, and progressive social values. In 1843, the British imperial forces, led by Charles Napier, violated a peace agreement and deceitfully invaded Sindh, reducing it to a British colony. Afterward, Sindh was annexed into British India against the will of its people.
In 1947, Sindh’s subjugation was shifted to Punjabi colonial rule through the religious deception of the so-called Two-Nation Theory, under which the Historic nations of South Asia ( Sindh, Baloch, Pashtun, Siraiki, )were imprisoned in an artificial, Unnatural and theocratic state called Pakistan. Since then, the Sindhi Nation has suffered systemic exploitation, political suppression, and state-engineered demographic changes aimed at erasing its identity.
Today, Punjab-dominated Pakistan continues to loot Sindh’s natural resources, occupy millions of acres of Sindhi agricultural land through military-led projects like “Green Pakistan” and corporate farming, and steal Sindh’s rightful share of Indus River water. Entire villages are being forcefully evacuated to facilitate military land grabs, leaving tens of thousands of Sindhi peasants and farmers displaced. The state has been looting Sindh’s minerals and gas resources since the day of Pakistan’s creation.
The state is also attempting to alter Sindh’s demography and erase its cultural heritage and language. Secular Sindhi political parties are being banned, their peaceful protests are met with violence, and they are labeled as terrorists, while religious extremism and terrorism are patronized by the state itself.
The Pakistani military and intelligence agencies are engaged in a brutal campaign of enforced disappearances, custodial killings, and extrajudicial executions of Sindhi political activists. Thousands have been abducted; many have been tortured and killed, their mutilated bodies dumped on roads to terrorize the public.
On May 20, 2025, peaceful Sindhi protesters in the city of Moro demonstrated against Punjab’s water theft and military land seizures. In response, military and intelligence personnel disguised in police uniforms opened fire on the protestors. Two activists, Zahid Laghari and Irfan Laghari, were martyred, and ten others injured. Irfan Laghari’s body was forcibly taken by military personnel from the hospital, fearing that the national reception of his funeral would expose Pakistan’s brutality.
This fascist suppression of Sindhi political resistance mirrors the genocidal violence Pakistan inflicted on the Bengali nation in 1971, where 3 million were massacred, and hundreds of thousands of women were subjected to sexual violence by the Pakistan Army.
We declare that Pakistan has failed as a political, economic, and moral state. It is a fascist, unnatural, and terrorist entity that continues to oppress the historic nations within its borders. Sindh has become a colony under military occupation. The Sindhi people are engaged in a just and political national liberation movement for the freedom of Sindhudesh.
We, the International Secretariat of Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz, urge:
1. The United Nations We urge the United Nations to recognize the right of the Sindhi nation to national independence, as enshrined in the UN Charter.
2. International human rights organizations to investigate the war crimes, enforced disappearances, and political repression committed by the Pakistani military against Sindhi civilians.
3. The democratic nations of the world to support the Sindhi Nation’s peaceful political struggle for freedom and to treat the national liberation movement of Sindhudesh as a legitimate struggle against colonialism.
4. Global media to break the silence on the crimes of the Pakistani military in Sindh and amplify the voices of the oppressed Sindhi Nation.
The freedom of Sindhudesh is a historical necessity and a natural right of the Sindhi nation. We call on all just, democratic, and peace-loving people and institutions across the globe to stand with Sindh in its journey toward freedom, dignity, and justice.
Sindhudesh is our natural homeland. Freddom id our natural right, Sindhudesh is not Pakistan.
Shafi Burfat
Chairman
Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz (JSMM)