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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]
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.
In 2010, Pakistan was affected by major floods and more than 20 million Pakistanis were affected by these floods. To help Pakistan, the European Union has funded €150 billion in 2010 and €92.5 billion in 2011 by the Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG ECHO). Including floods, the EU also ...
Sindhi nationalism (Sindhi: سنڌي قومپرستي ) is an ideology that claims that the Sindhis, an ethnolinguistic group native to the Pakistani province of Sindh, form a separate nation. After Bangladesh became independent in 1971, G.M. Syed gave a new direction to nationalism and founded the Jeay Sindh Mahaz in 1972 and presented the ...
A view of Karachi downtown, the capital of Sindh province. The economy of Sindh is the 2nd largest of all the provinces in Pakistan. Much of Sindh's economy is influenced by the economy of Karachi, the largest city and economic capital of the country. Historically, Sindh's contribution to Pakistan's GDP has been between 30% and 32.7%.
The government of Pakistan has attempted to subdue these separatist movements. [3] Influence and success of separatist groups has varied from total, in the case of Bangladesh, which separated from Pakistan in 1971. [4] The separatist movement in Balochistan is engaged in a low-intensity insurgency against the Government of Pakistan.
The constitution of 1956 made Pakistan an Islamic democratic country. Pakistan faced a civil war and Indian military intervention in 1971 resulting in the secession of East Pakistan as the new country of Bangladesh. The country has also unresolved territorial disputes with India, resulting in four conflicts.
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.