Insurgency in Sindh

{{Short description|Actions by Sindhi nationalists in Pakistan}}

{{Update|date=April 2025|reason=Updates needed past 17 May 2022 }}

{{Infobox military conflict

| conflict = Insurgency in Sindh

| partof =

| place = Sindh, Pakistan

| date = 2003 – Present
(22 years)

| status = Ongoing (low-level insurgency){{cite web|url=https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/768854-sindhi-separatists-carried-out-10-terror-attacks-across-province-in-2020|title='Sindhi separatists carried out 10 terror attacks across province in 2020'|date=4 January 2021|publisher=The News}}{{cite web|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1568507|title=Missing political approaches|date=12 July 2020|work=Dawn News}}{{cite web|url=https://www.orfonline.org/research/sindh-is-not-east-pakistan/|title=Sindh is not East Pakistan|work=Observer Research Foundation (ORF)|date=16 April 2014|author=Aakash Tolani}}

| combatant1 = {{tree list}}

{{flagicon|Pakistan}} Pakistan

• Ministry of Interior
• Sindh Rangers
• 25px Pakistan Armed Forces
• {{flagicon image|Flag of the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee.svg}} Civil Armed Forces
• Sindh Rangers
• {{flagicon image|State emblem of Pakistan.svg|border=no|20px}} Pakistani intelligence community
• Federal Investigation Agency
• Intelligence Bureau (Pakistan)
• {{flagicon image|Flag of Sindh.svg}} Government of Sindh
• Sindh Rangers
• 25px Sindh Police

{{tree list/end}}

| combatant2 = {{flagicon image|Sindudesh flag.jpg}} Sindhudesh movement
{{flagicon image|Sindudesh flag.jpg}} Sindhudesh Revolutionary Army
{{flagicon image|Sindudesh flag.jpg}} Sindhudesh Liberation Army
{{flagicon image|Sindudesh flag.jpg}} Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz
{{flagicon image|Sindudesh flag.jpg}} Jeay Sindh Students' Federation
Supported by
{{flagicon image|Flag of Baluchistan.svg}} Balochistan Liberation Army{{cite web|url=https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Belt-and-Road/Pakistani-militants-shift-focus-to-cities-in-targeting-of-Chinese|title=Pakistani militants shift focus to cities in targeting of Chinese|date=27 December 2020|publisher=Nikkei Asia}}
{{flagicon image|Balochistan Flag.svg}} Baluch Liberation Front
{{flagicon image|Balochistan Flag.svg}} Balochistan Republican Army (until 2022)
{{flagicon image|Balochistan Flag.svg}} Baloch Nationalist Army (until 2023)

| commander1 = {{ubl|

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Asif Ali Zardari

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Shehbaz Sharif

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Ishaq Dar

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Mian Khan Mondrani

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Aftab Durrani

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Khawaja Asif

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Lt Gen (R) Muhammad Ali{{Cite web |last=Akbar |first=Naveed |date=2024-09-27 |title=Lt General Muhammad Ali appointed defence secretary |url=https://english.aaj.tv/news/330381412/lt-general-muhammad-ali-appointed-defence-secretary |access-date=2024-09-28 |website=Aaj English TV |language=en}}

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Omar Ayub

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| {{flagicon image|Flag of the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee.svg}} Sahir Shamshad Mirza

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| {{flagicon image|Flag of the Chief of the Army Staff (Pakistan).svg}} Asim Munir

| {{flagicon image|Flag of the Pakistani Army.svg}} Syed Aamer Raza

| {{flagicon image|Naval Standard of Pakistan.svg}} Naveed Ashraf

| {{flagicon image|Air Force Ensign of Pakistan.svg}} Zaheer Ahmad Babar

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| {{flagicon image|ISI Emblem.png}} Asim Malik

| {{flagicon image|Ispr new logo.jpg}} Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry

| {{flagicon image|State emblem of Pakistan.svg}} Fuad Asadullah Khan

| {{flagicon image|State emblem of Pakistan.svg}} Lubna Farooq Malik

| {{flagicon image|}} Raja Riffat Mukhtar

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| {{flagicon image|}} Kamran Tessori

| {{flagicon image|}} Murad Ali Shah

| {{flagicon image|Coat of arms of Sindh Province.svg}} Asif Hyder Shah

| {{flagicon image|}} Major General Shamraiz Khan

| {{flagicon image|}} Ghulam Nabi Memon

}}

{{clist |title = Former commanders

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Pervez Musharraf

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Mamnoon Hussain

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Arif Alvi

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Zafarullah Khan Jamali

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Shujaat Hussain

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Shaukat Aziz

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Muhammad Mian Soomro

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Yusuf Raza Gilani

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Raja Pervaiz Ashraf

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Mir Hazar Khan Khoso

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Nawaz Sharif

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Shahid Khaqan Abbasi

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Nasirul Mulk

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Imran Khan

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Anwaar ul Haq Kakar

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Inam-ul-Haq

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Shah Mahmood Qureshi

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Hina Rabbani Khar

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Sartaj Aziz

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Khurram Dastgir

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Abdullah Hussain Haroon

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Jalil Abbas Jilani

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Faisal Saleh Hayat

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Hamid Nawaz Khan

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Rehman Malik

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Malik Habib

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Ahsan Iqbal

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Azam Suleman Khan

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Ijaz Ahmed Shah

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Rana Sanaullah

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Sarfraz Bugti

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Gohar Ejaz

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Mohsin Naqvi

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Tasneem Noorani

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Tariq Mahmud

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Syed Kamal Shah

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Qamar Zaman Chaudhry

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Khawaja Siddique Akbar

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Javed Iqbal

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Raja Muhammad Abbas

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Shahid Khan

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Arif Ahmed Khan

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Tariq Mahmood Khan

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Arshad Mirza

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Yousuf Naseem Khokhar

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Azam Suleman Khan

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Syed Ali Murtaza

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Abdullah Sumbal

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Rao Sikandar Iqbal

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Salim Abbas Jilani

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Ahmad Mukhtar

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Naveed Qamar

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Pervez Khattak

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Anwar Ali Hyder

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Tariq Waseem Ghazi

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Kamran Rasool

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Syed Athar Ali

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Naeem Khalid Lodhi

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Nargis Sethi

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Asif Yaseen Malik

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Alam Khattak

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Muhammad Abid Nazir

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Zamir ul Hassan Shah

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Ikram ul Haq

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Hilal Hussain

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Hamood Uz Zaman Khan

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Amer Ashfaq Kayani

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Fazal-ur-Rehman

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Parvez Elahi

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Khurshid Shah

| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Raja Riaz

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| {{flagicon image|Flag of the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee.svg}} Aziz Khan

| {{flagicon image|Flag of the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee.svg}} Ehsan ul Haq

| {{flagicon image|Flag of the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee.svg}} Tariq Majid

| {{flagicon image|Flag of the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee.svg}} Khalid Shameem Wynne

| {{flagicon image|Flag of the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee.svg}} Ashfaq Parvez Kayani

| {{flagicon image|Flag of the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee.svg}} Rashad Mahmood

| {{flagicon image|Flag of the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee.svg}} Zubair Mahmood Hayat

| {{flagicon image|Flag of the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee.svg}} Nadeem Raza

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| {{flagicon image|Flag of the Chief of the Army Staff (Pakistan).svg}} Pervez Musharraf

| {{flagicon image|Flag of the Chief of the Army Staff (Pakistan).svg}} Ashfaq Parvez Kayani

| {{flagicon image|Flag of the Chief of the Army Staff (Pakistan).svg}} Raheel Sharif

| {{flagicon image|Flag of the Chief of the Army Staff (Pakistan).svg}} Qamar Javed Bajwa

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| {{flagicon image|Flag of the Pakistani Army.svg}} Shahid Aziz

| {{flagicon image|Flag of the Pakistani Army.svg}} Tariq Majid

| {{flagicon image|Flag of the Pakistani Army.svg}} Salahuddin Satti

| {{flagicon image|Flag of the Pakistani Army.svg}} Muhammad Mustafa Khan

| {{flagicon image|Flag of the Pakistani Army.svg}} Khalid Shameem Wynne

| {{flagicon image|Flag of the Pakistani Army.svg}} Waheed Arshad

| {{flagicon image|Flag of the Pakistani Army.svg}} Rashad Mahmood

| {{flagicon image|Flag of the Pakistani Army.svg}} Ishfaq Nadeem Ahmad

| {{flagicon image|Flag of the Pakistani Army.svg}} Zubair Mahmood Hayat

| {{flagicon image|Flag of the Pakistani Army.svg}} Bilal Akbar

| {{flagicon image|Flag of the Pakistani Army.svg}} Nadeem Raza

| {{flagicon image|Flag of the Pakistani Army.svg}} Sahir Shamshad Mirza

| {{flagicon image|Flag of the Pakistani Army.svg}} Azhar Abbas

| {{flagicon image|Flag of the Pakistani Army.svg}} Muhammad Saeed

| {{flagicon image|Flag of the Pakistani Army.svg}} Muhammad Avais Dastgir

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| {{flagicon image|Naval Standard of Pakistan.svg}} Shahid Karimullah

| {{flagicon image|Naval Standard of Pakistan.svg}} Afzal Tahir

| {{flagicon image|Naval Standard of Pakistan.svg}} Noman Bashir

| {{flagicon image|Naval Standard of Pakistan.svg}} Asif Sandila

| {{flagicon image|Naval Standard of Pakistan.svg}} Muhammad Zakaullah

| {{flagicon image|Naval Standard of Pakistan.svg}} Zafar Mahmood Abbasi

| {{flagicon image|Naval Standard of Pakistan.svg}} Amjad Khan Niazi

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| {{flagicon image|Air Force Ensign of Pakistan.svg}} Mushaf Ali Mir

| {{flagicon image|Air Force Ensign of Pakistan.svg}} Syed Qaiser Hussain

| {{flagicon image|Air Force Ensign of Pakistan.svg}} Kaleem Saadat

| {{flagicon image|Air Force Ensign of Pakistan.svg}} Tanvir Mahmood Ahmed

| {{flagicon image|Air Force Ensign of Pakistan.svg}} Rao Qamar Suleman

| {{flagicon image|Air Force Ensign of Pakistan.svg}} Tahir Rafique Butt

| {{flagicon image|Air Force Ensign of Pakistan.svg}} Sohail Aman

| {{flagicon image|Air Force Ensign of Pakistan.svg}} Mujahid Anwar Khan

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| {{flagicon image|ISI Emblem.png}} Ehsan ul Haq

| {{flagicon image|ISI Emblem.png}} Ashfaq Parvez Kayani

| {{flagicon image|ISI Emblem.png}} Nadeem Taj

| {{flagicon image|ISI Emblem.png}} Ahmad Shuja Pasha

| {{flagicon image|ISI Emblem.png}} Zaheer-ul-Islam

| {{flagicon image|ISI Emblem.png}} Rizwan Akhtar

| {{flagicon image|ISI Emblem.png}} Naveed Mukhtar

| {{flagicon image|ISI Emblem.png}} Asim Munir

| {{flagicon image|ISI Emblem.png}} Faiz Hameed

| {{flagicon image|ISI Emblem.png}} Nadeem Anjum

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| {{flagicon image|Ispr new logo.jpg}} Rashid Qureshi

| {{flagicon image|Ispr new logo.jpg}} Shaukat Sultan

| {{flagicon image|Ispr new logo.jpg}} Waheed Arshad

| {{flagicon image|Ispr new logo.jpg}} Athar Abbas

| {{flagicon image|Ispr new logo.jpg}} Asim Saleem Bajwa

| {{flagicon image|Ispr new logo.jpg}} Asif Ghafoor

| {{flagicon image|Ispr new logo.jpg}} Babar Iftikhar

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| {{flagicon image|State emblem of Pakistan.svg}} Bashir Wali Mohmmand

| {{flagicon image|State emblem of Pakistan.svg}} Ijaz Ahmed Shah

| {{flagicon image|State emblem of Pakistan.svg}} Tariq Ahmed Lodhi

| {{flagicon image|State emblem of Pakistan.svg}} Shoaib Suddle

| {{flagicon image|State emblem of Pakistan.svg}} Javed Noor

| {{flagicon image|State emblem of Pakistan.svg}} Akhtar Hassan Khan Gorchani

| {{flagicon image|State emblem of Pakistan.svg}} Aftab Sultan

| {{flagicon image|State emblem of Pakistan.svg}} Suleman Khan

| {{flagicon image|State emblem of Pakistan.svg}} Ihsan Ghani

| {{flagicon image|State emblem of Pakistan.svg}} Shujaat Ullah Qureshi

| {{flagicon image|State emblem of Pakistan.svg}} Azhar Iqbal Qureshi

| {{flagicon image|State emblem of Pakistan.svg}} Allah Rakha Asi

| {{flagicon image|State emblem of Pakistan.svg}} Nauman Qureshi

| {{flagicon image|State emblem of Pakistan.svg}} Mansoor Ahmed Khan

| {{flagicon image|State emblem of Pakistan.svg}} Syed Mansoor Ali

| {{flagicon image|State emblem of Pakistan.svg}} Mansoor Hassan Siddiqui

| {{flagicon image|State emblem of Pakistan.svg}} Muneer Ahmad Memon

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| {{flagicon image|}} Saiyed Mohib Asad

| {{flagicon image|}} Tariq Parvez

| {{flagicon image|}} Tariq Masood Khosa

| {{flagicon image|}} Zafarullah Khan

| {{flagicon image|}} Waseem Ahmed

| {{flagicon image|}} Malik Muhammad Iqbal

| {{flagicon image|}} Syed Tahsin Anwar Ali Shah

| {{flagicon image|}} Javed Iqbal

| {{flagicon image|}} Fayyaz Ahmed Leghari

| {{flagicon image|}} Muhammad Anwar Virk

| {{flagicon image|}} Saud Mirza

| {{flagicon image|}} Ghalib Ali Bandesha

| {{flagicon image|}} Akbar Khan Hoti

| {{flagicon image|}} Muhammad Amlish

| {{flagicon image|}} Bashir Memon

| {{flagicon image|}} Wajid Zia

| {{flagicon image|}} Abdullah Malik

| {{flagicon image|}} Hamza Naseem

| {{flagicon image|}} Waseem Khan

| {{flagicon image|}} Sana Ullah Abbasi

| {{flagicon image|}} Muhammad Tahir Rai

| {{flagicon image|}} Muhammad Mohsin Butt

| {{flagicon image|}} Ahmad Ishaque Jehangir

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| {{flagicon image|}} Ishratul Ibad

| {{flagicon image|}} Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui

| {{flagicon image|}} Muhammad Zubair Umar

| {{flagicon image|}} Imran Ismail

| {{flagicon image|}} Agha Siraj Durrani

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| {{flagicon image|}} Ali Mohammad Mahar

| {{flagicon image|}} Arbab Ghulam Rahim

| {{flagicon image|}} Abdul Qadir Halepota

| {{flagicon image|}} Syed Qaim Ali Shah

| {{flagicon image|}} Zahid Qurban Alvi

| {{flagicon image|}} Fazalur Rehman

| {{flagicon image|}} Maqbool Baqar

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| {{flagicon image|Coat of arms of Sindh Province.svg}} KB Rind

| {{flagicon image|Coat of arms of Sindh Province.svg}} Mutawakkil Kazi

| {{flagicon image|Coat of arms of Sindh Province.svg}} Aslam Sanjrani

| {{flagicon image|Coat of arms of Sindh Province.svg}} Fazalur Rehman

| {{flagicon image|Coat of arms of Sindh Province.svg}} Shakeel Durrani

| {{flagicon image|Coat of arms of Sindh Province.svg}} Ejaz Qureshi

| {{flagicon image|Coat of arms of Sindh Province.svg}} Muhammad Ijaz Chaudhry

| {{flagicon image|Coat of arms of Sindh Province.svg}} Sajjad Saleem Hotiana

| {{flagicon image|Coat of arms of Sindh Province.svg}} Muhammad Siddique Memon

| {{flagicon image|Coat of arms of Sindh Province.svg}} Rizwan Memon

| {{flagicon image|Coat of arms of Sindh Province.svg}} Azam Suleman Khan

| {{flagicon image|Coat of arms of Sindh Province.svg}} Mumtaz Ali Shah

| {{flagicon image|Coat of arms of Sindh Province.svg}} Sohail Rajput

| {{flagicon image|Coat of arms of Sindh Province.svg}} Fakhre Alam Irfan

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| {{flagicon image|}} Aijaz Chaudhry

| {{flagicon image|}} Rizwan Akhtar

| {{flagicon image|}} Bilal Akbar

| {{flagicon image|}} Muhammad Saeed

| {{flagicon image|}} Omer Ahmed Bokhari

| {{flagicon image|}} Iftikhar Hassan Chaudhry

| {{flagicon image|}} Azhar Waqas

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| {{flagicon image|}} Syed Kamal Shah

| {{flagicon image|}} Asad Jahangir

| {{flagicon image|}} Jahangir Mirza

| {{flagicon image|}} Niaz Ahmed Siddiki

| {{flagicon image|}} Zia-ul-Hassan Khan

| {{flagicon image|}} Azhar Ali Faroqi

| {{flagicon image|}} Dr. Muhammad Shoaib Suddle

| {{flagicon image|}} Sultan Salahuddin Babar Khattak

| {{flagicon image|}} Fayyaz Ahmed Leghari

| {{flagicon image|}} Wajid Ali Khan

| {{flagicon image|}} Syed Mushtaq Shah

| {{flagicon image|}} Fayyaz Ahmed Leghari

| {{flagicon image|}} Ghulam Shabbir Shaikh

| {{flagicon image|}} Shahid Nadeem Baloch

| {{flagicon image|}} Squadron Leader (R) Iqbal Mahmood

| {{flagicon image|}} Ghulam Hyder Jamali

| {{flagicon image|}} Allah Dino Khawaja

| {{flagicon image|}} Amjad Javed Saleemi

| {{flagicon image|}} Syed Kaleem Imam

| {{flagicon image|}} Mushtaq Ahmad Mahar

| {{flagicon image|}} Dr. Kamran Fazal

| {{flagicon image|}} Ghulam Nabi Memon

| {{flagicon image|}} Riffat Mukhtar

}}

| commander2 = {{flagicon image|Sindudesh flag.jpg}} Darya Khan
{{flagicon image|Balochistan Flag.svg}} Gulzar Imam (2022–2023){{surrendered}}{{Cite web|title=BNA chief says farewell to arms|newspaper=Express Tribune|date=23 May 2023 |url=https://tribune.com.pk/story/2418211/bna-chief-says-farewell-to-arms|access-date=23 May 2023}}
{{flagicon image|Balochistan Flag.svg}} Sarfraz Bangulzai (2023){{surrendered}}{{Cite news|title=Sarfraz Bangulzai Baloch Appointed As New Head of BNA, Media Reports|newspaper=Khaama Press |date=19 April 2023 |url=https://www.khaama.com/sarfraz-bangulzai-baloch-appointed-as-new-head-of-bna-media-reports-say/|access-date=19 May 2023}}
{{flagicon image|Balochistan Flag.svg}} Basheer Zeb

| strength1 = 50,000+

| strength2 = 600

| casualties1 = Unknown

| casualties2 = Thousands killed, Arrested, captured, or surrendered

| casualties3 = 83+ civilians

| image = Major ethnic groups of Pakistan in 1980 borders removed.jpg

| caption = Map of major ethnic groups in Pakistan, Sindhis (Yellow) are in the Southeast

}}

The Insurgency in Sindh is an extremely low-level insurgency waged by Sindhi Nationalists against the government of Pakistan. Sindhi nationalists want to create an independent state called Sindhudesh.

Sindhi nationalists have allied up with Baloch nationalists over the years to counter Pakistan's security forces. Although, due to Sindh province’s growing middle class and educated youth the insurgency never gained popular support among the masses.{{Cite web |title=Sindhi and Baluch Separatists Team Up to Target Chinese Interests in Pakistan |url=https://jamestown.org/program/sindhi-and-baluch-separatists-team-up-to-target-chinese-interests-in-pakistan/ |access-date=2023-02-21 |website=Jamestown |language=en-US}}