India, Sept. 18 -- Geneva [Switzerland] , September 18 (ANI) Sindhi activists and members of rights groups staged a protest in front of the United Nations headquarters during the 60th session of the UN Human Rights Council, highlighting what they called systematic abuses and exploitation of Sindhi people by the Pakistani state and its military establishment.

The demonstrations were accompanied by a side event at the International Centre Conference on Sindh and a Sindhi Human Rights Exhibition. Protesters raised concerns over a wide range of issues, including enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, land grabbing, forced conversions of Sindhi Hindu girls, and environmental degradation caused by the construction of canals and dams ...