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The Sindh assembly was the first British Indian legislature to pass the resolution in favour of Pakistan.Influential Sindhi activists under the supervision of G.M. Syed and other important leaders at the forefront of the provincial autonomy movement joined the Muslim League in 1938 and presented the Pakistan resolution in the Sindh Assembly in 1943.
The Sindhudesh Movement [1] is a separatist movement, based in Sindh, Pakistan, seeking to create a homeland for Sindhis by establishing an ethnic state called Sindhudesh (Sindhi: سنڌو ديش , lit. ' Country of Sindhis '), [2] [3] [4] which would be either autonomous within Pakistan [5] or independent from it. [6] [7]
It was founded by G. M. Syed in 1972 to separate Sindh from Pakistan. [1] Sindhi separatists believe that the Sindhi people suffer from disenfranchisement at the hands of Pakistan's Punjabi majority. [4] In 1972 G.M Syed, The considered founder of Sindhi nationalism formed an organization Jeay Sindh Mahaz. Later JSM divided into many factions.
Ghulam Murtaza Syed (Sindhi: غلام مرتضيٰ سيد , 17 January 1904 – 25 April 1995), [3] known as G. M. Syed was a prominent Sindhi politician, who is known for his scholarly work, [4] [5] Later proposing ideological groundwork for separate Sindhi identity and laying the foundations of Sindhudesh movement. [6]
In 1890, after the Minto reforms, Sindh gained representation for the first time in the Bombay Legislative Assembly, with four members representing it. From that time, a movement to separate Sindh from the Bombay Presidency was established, and in 1935, after a long struggle, a new chapter in the history of Sindh opened.
The alliance was rooted in rural areas of Sindh Province and remained mostly nonviolent, was strongest among supporters of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP). Though it launched one of the most massive nonviolent movements in South Asia since the time of Gandhi , failure to expand beyond its southern stronghold combined with effective repression ...
Sir Syed Ahmad Khan became an inspiration for the Pakistan Movement.. Very few Muslim families had their children sent to English universities. On the other hand, the effects of the Bengali Renaissance made the Hindu population more educated and enabled them to gain lucrative positions at the Indian Civil Service; many ascended to the influential posts in the British government.
Pakistan was closely tied to the United States in the Cold War. In the Afghan-Soviet War, it supported the Sunni Mujahideens and played a vital role in the defeat of Soviet Forces and forced them to withdraw from Afghanistan. The country continues to face challenging problems including terrorism, poverty, illiteracy, corruption and political ...