Human rights abuses in Sindh

According to the 1994 Human Rights in Developing Countries Yearbook, there have been many cases of political persecution in Sindh. Much of the persecution is linked to Sindh's provincial government, and is undertaken by Karachi's Crime Investigation Agency (CIA). Many human rights abuses were committed under the tenure of Chief Minister Jam Sadiq Ali, who took office from August 6, 1990, to March 5, 1992. Under his tenure, Sindhi independence leader GM Syed was placed under house arrest until his death; however Jam Sadiq's death in 1992 did not cause these acts to cease. Following his death, his seat was contested between his son, Jam Ashiq Ali and a Pakistan Peoples Party member, Shahanawaz Junejo. Ali's supporters undertook intimidation of PPP activists and Shahanawaz Junejo, as well as 200 other opposition activists who were detained.{{cite book|last1=Baehr|first1=Peter R.|title=Human Rights in Developing Countries - Yearbook 1994|date=2 July 1994|publisher=Springer|isbn=9789065448453|pages=[https://archive.org/details/humanrightsindev1994unse/page/291 291–305]|url=https://archive.org/details/humanrightsindev1994unse/page/291|access-date=10 September 2017}}

In March 2005, vice-chairman of the Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz (JSMM) Samiullah Kalhoro died in a hospital of Karachi. The JSMM chief Shafi Burfat alleged that Kalhoro died after his kidney failed as a result of torture in police custody. He added that the JSMM was being punished for pursuing the ideology of G. M. Syed.{{cite news|title=HYDERABAD: Kalhoro's death JSMM calls for strike on 10th|url=http://archives.dawn.com/2005/03/07/local19.htm|publisher=Dawn|access-date=10 September 2017}} JSMM has published advertisements in Sindhi newspapers criticising law enforcement agencies.{{cite web|title=JSMM's open letter to UN Human Rights team|url=http://kawish.asia/Backissues/2012/Sept%2012/11/today_page_01.htm|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130114181839/http://kawish.asia/Backissues/2012/Sept%2012/11/today_page_01.htm|url-status=usurped|archive-date=January 14, 2013|publisher=Daily Kawish|access-date=10 September 2017}}

In November 2010, police allegedly picked up Ali Madad Burfat, an activist of the Jeay Sindh Students' Federation, and his friend, both of whom were students of the Sindh University at the time.{{cite web|title=JSSF activist, friend picked up|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/944355/jssf-activist-friend-picked-up|publisher=Dawn|date=10 September 2017}}

On 21 April 2011, unidentified armed men shot dead three leaders of the Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz (JSMM) including senior Vice-chairman Qurban Khohaver, Rooplo Cholyani and Noorullah Tunio at Bakhoro Mori area in Sanghar district.{{cite news|last1=Butt|first1=Seema|title=Dead on Arrival: Sindh's Missing Persons|url=http://newslinemagazine.com/magazine/dead-on-arrival-sindhs-missing-persons/|access-date=10 September 2017|work=Newsline|issue=June 2012}} The JSMM alleged that the personnel of law enforcement agencies were involved in Bakhoro Mori incident.{{cite news|title=Nationalists remember slain comrades|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/695465|access-date=10 September 2017|work=Dawn|date=14 February 2012}} Human Rights Commission of Pakistan published a report on Bakhoro Mori incident and urged that "Agencies’ role in JSMM activists’ murder must be probed".{{cite news|last1=Yusuf|first1=Zohra|title=Agencies' role in JSMM activists' murder must be probed: HRCP|url=http://hrcp-web.org/hrcpweb/agencies-role-in-jsmm-activists-murder-must-be-probed-hrcp/|access-date=10 September 2017|work=Human Rights Commission of Pakistan|date=5 May 2011}} In April 2011, JSMM member Ijaz Solangi's dead body was found in Dadu after he held a press conference against security agencies.{{cite web|title=Dadu: dead body found of a man after making press conference|url=http://kawish.asia/Backissues/2011/Apr%2011/18/today_page_10.htm|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130219121414/http://kawish.asia/Backissues/2011/Apr%2011/18/today_page_10.htm|url-status=usurped|archive-date=February 19, 2013|publisher=The Kawish|access-date=10 September 2017}}{{Citation needed|reason=Better source needed|date=September 2017}} In October 2011, Asian Human Rights Commission issued an appeal on information it had received that the Sindh University authorities allegedly used law enforcement agencies for disappearances of students in Sindh province.{{cite web|title=Sindh University authorities use law enforcement agencies for disappearances of students |url=http://www.humanrights.asia/news/urgent-appeals/AHRC-UAC-203-2011|publisher= Asian Human Rights Commission |access-date=10 September 2017}}

In a 2012 statement issued by Asian Human Rights Commission, it said that: "In Sindh province more than 100 nationalists were abducted and disappeared after 9/11, many were extra judicially killed and their tortured and bullet riddled bodies were dumped on the streets." It further added that: "Alone, from JSMM 13 people are still missing. Its former leader, Mr. Muzzafar Bhutto was two times abducted and kept in military torture cells where he succumbed to his injuries during the second time detention."{{cite news|title=PAKISTAN: The intelligence agencies target nationalists groups to cover up the activities of Taliban in Sindh province and their inefficiency|url=http://www.humanrights.asia/news/ahrc-news/AHRC-STM-264-2012|access-date=10 September 2017|work=Asian Human Rights Commission|date=12 December 2012}}{{cite news|title=Police finds bodies of two Sindhi nationalists|url=https://tribune.com.pk/story/541861/police-finds-bodies-of-two-sindhi-nationalists/|access-date=10 September 2017|work=Express Tribune|date=29 April 2013|quote=Another member of JSMM, Muzaffar Bhutto, who had been missing since the previous one and a half years, was killed in Jamshoro in May, 2012.}} Mumtaz Bhutto another activist of JSMM and brother of Muzaffar Bhutto, killed on 1 July 2009 in a bomb blast at Thermal Power house colony Jamshoro, JSMM alleged that security agencies were involved in bomb blast.{{cite web|title=JSMM leader Killed|url=http://kawish.asia/Backissues/2009/July%2009/02/today_page_12.htm|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130219120623/http://kawish.asia/Backissues/2009/July%2009/02/today_page_12.htm|url-status=usurped|archive-date=February 19, 2013|publisher= The kawish Local newspaper |access-date=July 1, 2009}}{{Citation needed|reason=Better source needed|date=September 2017}}

In 2011, Congressman Dan Burton and Brad Sherman, in their letters to Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari, urged him to take steps to end the practice of enforced disappearance in Pakistan.{{cite web|title=Congressman Burton concerned about enforced disappearances of Sindhi and Baloch nationalists — Writes to President Zardari|url=http://mespeaks.wordpress.com/2011/06/30/burton-over-enforced-disappearance-of-sindhi-baloch-nationalists/|publisher=MeSpeaks|access-date=May 31, 2011}}{{cite web|title=Congressman Sherman's Letter to President Zardari|url=http://npihit.com/sindhpac/pdf's/Sherman_4-12-2011.pdf|publisher=Npihit|access-date=April 12, 2011}} When brought to his attention, Noam Chomsky showed concern on enforced disappearances in Sindh and Balochistan.{{cite web|title=Noam Chomsky Condemns Enforced Disappearances in Sindh and Balochistan|url=http://mespeaks.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/chomskyletter_020612_590-766.jpg|publisher=MeSpeaks|access-date=10 September 2017}} In September 2012, a delegation of United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, visited Pakistan for the first time at the invitation of the Pakistani government.{{cite news|title=UN experts on missing persons to visit Pakistan from Sept 10|url=http://dawn.com/2012/09/06/un-experts-on-missing-persons-to-visit-pakistan-from-sept-10/|work=Dawn|access-date=10 September 2017}}

In May 2018, the families of disappeared political activists staged a hunger strike in protest of their family members and in turn were attacked by security forces{{specify|date=December 2018}}. The assault was almost immediately condemned by congressman Sherman.{{cite web|url=https://sherman.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/congressman-sherman-condemns-assault-on-families-of-disappeared-persons|title=Congressman Sherman Condemns Assault on Families of Disappeared Persons during Hunger-Strike in Sindh, Pakistan|date=21 May 2018}}

{{main|Missing persons (Pakistan)|Safdar Sarki}}

Safdar Sarki, an activist in the Sindhi nationalist movement, was one of the many disappeared during the period of President Pervez Musharraf's rule. The campaign to "find" him and get him released included Amnesty International, who called for his release.{{cite web|title=Pakistan: Possible "disappearance"/fear of torture or ill-treatment: Dr Safdar Sarki (M), US national|url=https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/asa33/008/2006/en/|website=10 March 2006|publisher=Amnesty International|access-date=10 September 2017}} During the first eight months of 2017, roughly "110 nationalist activists and human rights defenders" in Sindh disappeared.{{Cite web|last=Kaleem|first=Moosa|date=18 November 2017|title=What Explains the Increase in Missing Persons in Sindh?|url=https://thewire.in/external-affairs/reasons-behind-increase-missing-persons-sindh|access-date=2020-09-26|website=The Wire}} The Secretary-General of World Sindhi Congress told the United Nations Human Rights Council on 25 September 2020 that "enforced disappearances of Sindhi people by Pakistan agencies continue unabated. In the last 3 months, over 60 abducted."{{Cite web|date=25 September 2020|title=Enforced disappearances of people from our community continue in Pakistan: World Sindhi Congress|url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/world/2020/sep/25/enforced-disappearances-ofpeople-from-our-communitycontinue-in-pakistan-world-sindhi-congress-2201751.html|access-date=2020-09-26|website=The New Indian Express}}

• Human rights in Pakistan
• Targeted killings in Pakistan
• Sindhudesh
• Insurgency in Sindh

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• [http://www.unpo.org/article/12994 Sindh: Human Rights Abuses Continue Against Fishing Communities - UNPO]
• The Foreign Policy of Pakistan: Ethnic Impacts on Diplomacy, 1971-1994 Mehtab Ali Shah {{ISBN|1-86064-169-5}}
• Human Rights: Commitment and Betrayal - M. G. Chitkara {{ISBN|81-7024-727-6}}
• Human Rights: Annual Report 2004 - Foreign and Commonwealth Office
• Globe, Volume 11, Issues 2-6
• [http://www.docdroid.net/1525v/atta-mohammed-bhambhro-article.pdf.html Enforced disappearance of Raja Dahar Bhambhro]
• {{cite web|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1354459/missing-persons-nightmare|title=Missing persons nightmare|work=Faisal Siddiqi|date=28 August 2017|publisher=Dawn News}}
• {{cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/enforced-disappearances-in-sindh_us_5a2b1342e4b04e0bc8f3b495#|title=Enforced Disappearances in Sindh|work=Brad Sherman|date=8 December 2017|publisher=Huffington Post}}

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