Geneva, June 12 -- Shafi Burfat, Chairman of the Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz (JSMM), has issued an urgent and impassioned appeal to the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), detailing what he describes as a relentless and systematic campaign of human rights violations and political persecution carried out by the Pakistani state and its military-intelligence establishment against the people of Sindh.

In a detailed letter submitted on behalf of the Sindhudesh National Movement and JSMM, Burfat provides a bleak picture of life in Sindh, claiming that villages are raided, families are terrorised, and political opposition is met with violence, abductions, and en...