Pakistan treating Sindh as colony, activist tells UNHRC

Updated:3 years, 3 months ago

Geneva (Switzerland), March 25 (ANI): A Sindhi political activist exposed Pakistan and its army for carrying out atrocities on the people of Sindh and treating the region as its colony. Speaking during the 52nd Session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), Sajjid Shar of Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz (JSMM) said, “My organisation wants to bring the attention of UN Bodies to a pressing human rights and national existence issue that requires the urgent attention of this Council and her bodies. The people of Sindh in Pakistan suffering from the worst form of slavery, humiliation, political oppression, and economic exploitation for the past 75 years”. He said, “Pakistan is treating Sindh as a colony and deprived people of their homeland, culture, language, and political freedom”. Sajjid informed the Council that Pakistan is looting the Sindh's economic resources, mineral reserves, national wealth, rivers, seas, and altering demography. Political workers of Sindh including journalists, writers, poets and human rights activists are being enforcedly disappeared by ISI (State agencies) and their voices are being silenced. He urged the UN bodies to call upon the Pakistani government to immediately stop the oppression and slavery of the Sindhi Nation including the disappearances of activists and human rights violation.

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