The Jeay Sindh Freedom Movement (JSFM) has announced that it will observe August 14, 2024, as a Black Day across Sindh, marking their protest against decades of oppression and tyranny by the Paki establishment. The movement’s leaders have called for their workers to tie black armbands and wave black flags at intersections throughout the province. On August 14, they also plan to hoist the national flag of Sindh as a symbol of resistance.
According to JSFM Chairman Sohail Abro, and other prominent leaders including Zubair Sindhi, Amar Azadi, Sudhu Sindhi, Hafeez Desi, and Pyare Sindhu, the protest is a response to what they consider to be the unjust creation of Pakistan on August 14, 1947, under the two-nation theory—a theory that failed with the independence of Bangladesh in 1971.
JSFM Observes Black Day
In a statement, the JSFM leaders asserted that Sindh existed as an independent nation thousands of years before Pakistan was formed in 1947. They referred to August 14 as the anniversary of an “unnatural state,” describing the creation of Pakistan as a “mistake of history” and a “dark day for humanity.” According to the JSFM, the formation of Pakistan led to the enslavement of historical nations such as the Sindhi, Baloch, Seraiki, Gilgit, Kashmiri, and Pashtun people, all of whom, they say, have been subjected to economic, political, and geographical oppression by the “Punjabi Military Establishment.”
Sohail Abro and his colleagues said that the Punjabi Army is forcibly occupying Sindh’s lands and resources, stressing that the right to self-determination and freedom is an inalienable right that they intend to achieve. “One day, we will secure our freedom from this rogue state of Pakistan,” they declared.
JSFM leaders reported that occupied-state agencies of the “Punjabi-Pakistan Army” have intensified raids on the homes of pro-independence political activists in Sindh, with abductions and forced disappearances continuing unabated. The JSFM has called on international organizations, including the United Nations, Amnesty International, and other human rights groups, to support their cause for freedom and to intervene against the ongoing human rights abuses in Sindh.