Covers the institutional and legal history of the Sindhudesh independence movement: G.M. Syed's 1972 founding of the Jeay Sindh Mahaz, the movement's post-1995 fragmentation, and the JSMM's founding and 2013 ban. It does not provide a detailed account of alleged human-rights abuses against Sindhi activists beyond what is attributed to specific named sources, and does not attempt a general ethnographic, cultural or economic history of Sindh or a full account of the numerous Jeay Sindh factions.
G.M. Syed, who had moved the resolution for Sindh's accession to Pakistan in 1947 but grew critical of post-independence centralization, founded the Jeay Sindh Mahaz in 1972 in the aftermath of Bangladesh's independence, interpreting Bengali nationalism's success as validation for Sindhi self-determination; his 1974 book "A Nation in Chains: Sindhudesh" argued for an independent Sindhi state.[1] The movement declined significantly after Syed's death in 1995, with various factions reorganizing, including into the Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz.[2] The Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz, founded on 26 November 2000 by Shafi Muhammad Burfat, was banned by Pakistan on 15 March 2013; Burfat has continued to advocate for Sindhudesh from exile in Germany.[3]
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Sindh remains an ordinary province of Pakistan. The JSMM remains banned, and its leadership continues to advocate for Sindhudesh independence from exile in Germany; this bundle does not document a mass-mobilized independence campaign within Sindh comparable to the movement's 1970s peak under G.M. Syed.[3]
History
From G.M. Syed's 1972 founding of the Jeay Sindh Mahaz, through the movement's post-1995 fragmentation, to the JSMM's founding and 2013 ban.
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G.M. Syed founded the movement for an independent Sindhudesh, inspired by Bangladesh's 1971 independence.
Significance here: The founding of the modern Sindhudesh independence movement by a former founding figure of Pakistan itself.
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A newer Sindhudesh advocacy organization was founded and later banned, its leadership continuing to campaign from exile.
Significance here: The current leading organization explicitly advocating Sindhudesh secession, illustrating the movement's continuation after G.M. Syed's death and its treatment by the Pakistani state.
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Claim: G.M. Syed, who had moved the resolution for Sindh's accession to Pakistan in 1947 but grew critical of post-independence political centralization, founded the Jeay Sindh Mahaz in 1972 in the aftermath of Bangladesh's independence from Pakistan, interpreting Bengali nationalism's success as validation for Sindhi ethnic self-determination; in his 1974 book "A Nation in Chains: Sindhudesh," Syed argued that Sindh's distinct language, culture and history, and the exploitation of its resources, warranted independence as a separate state, "Sindhudesh."
Claim: The Sindhudesh movement declined significantly following G.M. Syed's death in 1995; various nationalist factions of the Jeay Sindh movement that had previously operated separately merged into new organizations, including the Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM), founded in 1995.
Claim: The Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz (JSMM) was founded on 26 November 2000 by Shafi Muhammad Burfat, advocating for Sindhudesh's secession from Pakistan; the Pakistani government banned the JSMM on 15 March 2013. Burfat has continued to advocate for the organization from exile in Germany, where he lives under political asylum.