Protesters in Pakistan’s Sindh on Sunday raised placards of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other world leaders to intervene in the people’s demand to free Sindh province from Pakistan.
The protesters were seen raising pro-freedom slogans and sought the intervention of PM Narendra Modi and other world leaders for their freedom from Pakistan.
The protest was held in Sann, Sindh province of Pakistan on Sunday.
The huge pro-freedom rally was organised on the 117th birth anniversary of GM Syed, one of the founding fathers of modern Sindhi nationalism.
The protesters were seen holding the placards of PM Modi, US President-elect Joe Biden, New Zealand PM Jacinda and other world leaders to seek their intervention for the freedom of Sindhudesh.
Sindhudesh is a demand for a separate homeland for Sindhis which first surfaced in 1967 under the leadership of GM Syed and Pir Ali Mohammed Rashdi.
While speaking to media, one of the protest organisers, Shafi Mohammad Burfat, Chairman of Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz said, "Among all these barbaric assaults on its history and culture, and all these ages of occupation and dawns of independence Sindh has retained and maintained its separate historical and cultural identity as a pluralist, co-existent, tolerant and harmonious society where all the different cultures, languages and ideas of the foreign and native people have not only influenced each other but accepted and absorbed the common message of the human civilisation."
He further added, "This historical synthesis of religions, philosophies and civilisation from the east and west has given our motherland Sindh a distinct place in the history of humanity".
"While the Sindh gave India its name, the Sindh citizens who pioneered in the fields of industry, philosophy, marine navigation, mathematics and astronomy are today chained by the Islam-o-fascist terrorist unconstitutional forced federation of Pakistan by the military might of Punjabi imperialism in the name of Islam," he added.
The protesters claimed that Sindh is the home of Indus Valley Civilisation and Vedic religion which was “illegitimately occupied by the British Empire and was delivered by them in the 'evil' Islamist hands of Pakistan in 1947.”
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Several nationalist parties in Sindh are pushing the idea of a free Sindh country, proposing various issues on multiple international platforms and have called Pakistan an "occupier".
The people of Sindh claim that Pakistan has been continuously exploiting resources and involved in human rights violations in the region.