Shafi Muhammad Burfat, also known as Shafi Burfat (Sindhi: شفيع محمد برفت); born November 25, 1965, is the founder and current chairman of Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz; a separatist and liberal political party in Sindh, Pakistan who believes in the freedom of Sindhudesh from Pakistan.
Shafi Muhammad Burfat | |
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| Born | November 25, 1965 |
| Status | never apprehended |
| Other names | Shafi Burfat |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Known for | separatist leader |
| Spouse | Yasmeen Burfat |
| Children | Rahul Latif Shahmir Khan Balaach Khan Jeysen |
| Relatives | Allah Dino Burfat (father) Allah Dini Burfat (mother) |
| Website | shafiburfat |
Disappearance edit
Burfat is a fugitive escaping persecution since 1994. Media has reported that Shafi Muhammd Burfat had fled to Afghanistan where he established his control center in Kabul.[1][2] But some photographs and a column in The daily Jang newspaper has reported Shafi Burfat's presence in an event on Human Rights in UN headquarters at Geneva.[3]
On 1 April 2013 home ministry of Pakistan declared JSMM as a terrorist organization and imposed ban.[4] The Crime Investigation Department (CID) of Sindh police and Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has added Shafi Muhammad Burfat to its Red Book for his alleged separatists actions against Pakistan.[5]
Burfat has rejected the Pakistan government's portrayals of JSMM as a terrorist organisation and has instead said "it was not hidden that Pakistan government has been nurturing and sponsoring extremism and providing safe havens to terrorist groups".[6]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ M. Troy Burnett (2020). Nationalism Today: Extreme Political Movements around the World. ABC-CLIO. p. 886. ISBN 9781440850004.
- ^ Amir Mir (October 17, 2012). "Fugitive Sindhudesh chief operating from Kabul". The News Pakistan. Archived from the original on January 9, 2013. Retrieved January 7, 2013.
- ^ "جنیوا اور اس کی ٹوٹی کرسی". Daily Jang. 2016. Retrieved June 30, 2016.
- ^ "Protestation against band on JSMM". Daily Awami Awaz. April 4, 2013. Archived from the original on July 9, 2015. Retrieved January 7, 2013.
- ^ "Red Book of FIA Government of Pakistan" (PDF). FIA. 2008. Retrieved January 7, 2013.
- ^ "JSMM rejects allegations of links with terror group". ANI News. 14 January 2018. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
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