User:Jeay Sindh Mahaz

FOUNDATION Jeay Sindh Mahaz is a nationalist and progressive political party of Sindh. The Party of founded on 18th June 1972 at Hyder Manzil, Karachi. The founding session which was presided over by Saeen G.M. Syed, was attended among others by Raees Ghulam Mustafa Bhurgri, Kako Teerathdas, Allan Khan Thebo, Iqbal Tareen, Shah Muhammad Shah, Madad Ali Sindhi, Amanullah Shaikh and Abdul Khaliq Junejo. The founding charter made political, economic and cultural freedom of Sind has the main objectives of JMS’s struggle. Since its creation the party has been continuously struggling on the issues related to Sindh’s national cohesion and emancipation and for the solution of the problems affecting Sindhi nation’s natural and peaceful progress such as influx of the alien people, ownership of natural resources, water issues, feudalism, education and etc etc. IDEOLOGY: Ideologically Jeay Sindh Mahaz is a national and progressive party having Nationalism, Socialism, Secularism and Democracy as its guiding principles. It considers peasants, Labourers and middle class as its basic source of strength. PROGRAM: The basic aim of the struggle of Jeay Sindh Mahaz is to achieve the goal of sovereign, autonomous and prosperous Sindh. It believes in using all the non-violent, democratic and internationally recognized means to reach its destiny POLICIES: -	Struggle against every kind of exploitation based on class, race, religious and  gender. -	It is firm belief of JMS that feudalism is an anathema to national progress of Sindh so it is committed to fight against feudalism and to support Trade and Industry. -	JSM considers the oppressed classes of the society particularly peasants, workers and the middle class as the main source of strength in the struggle. -	Struggle for unconditional right and complete control over Oil, Gas, Coal, Islands, Coastal Land and other natural resources of Sindh. -	JSM believes in alignment with parties which struggle for national and democratic rights particularly Right of Self-Determination. -	JSM support those groups, organizations, Parties and nations who struggle for freedom, peace, Justice, Democracy and Human rights in the world

STRUGGLE FOR RIGHT Jeay Sindh Mahaz has a long history of consistent and continuous struggle whether is the issues of Water/Kalabagh Dam, illegal influx of aliens into Sindh, exploitation of national resources of Sindh or religious extremism and intolerance. i)	Influx of Aliens: Influx of aliens has been of the biggest challenges for existence and peaceful progress of Sindhi nation. This problem creates many other problems such as unemployment, religious and cultural confrontation, law & order and most of all threat of Sindhi being converted into minority on their own Land. Jeay Sindh Mahaz has been struggling consistently against influx either other countries or from other provinces.  Due to continuous and serious protest by JSM, different government had to withdraw some of the decisions of settlement of aliens’    e.g.  •	In 1972, just after the foundation of JSM, Zulifqar Ali Bhutto’s regime agreed with India to bring the Biharis from Bangladesh and settle them in Sindh in exchange of the release of 90,000 POWs.  JSM raised voice and launched Sindh wide campaign against the decision.  In the result government had to postpone it, though illegal, with government connivance, Biharis continued to come. •	In 1989, the government of Benazir Bhutto announced to bring Biharis through aeroplane. JSM organized a historic protest demonstration and sit-in gathering of more than hundred thousand people outside the Karachi Airport and the government had to cancel the flight carrying Biharis. •	In 1991, once again the then government of Nawaz Sharif announced to bring and settle the Biharis inMian Chanoon (Punjab). JSM knowing that ultimately these people would come and settle in Sindh, reacted promptly and arranged a protest sit-in at Sindh-Punjab border at Kamu Shaheed. This was first time that Sindh-Punjab border was closed, an act Banazir Bhutto replicated later. ii)	 National Resources : The Land of Sindh is rich in natural resources like Oil, gas, and coal.  Also Sindh is home to the two seaports, a very big source of income. But all these are occupied dominated and exploited by the Pubjab-dominated central government of Pakistan.  Jeay Sindh Mahaz believes that Sindhi people should have the first right of use of these resources.  The party struggles for and demands that Sindh should have unconditional right and total control over its natural resources and other source of Income. iii)	Religious extremism  and struggle for secularism :  Now a days Pakistan’s name has become synonymous with religious extremism. Founder of jeay Sindh Mahaz Saeen G.M. Syed during the early days of Pakistan had demanded and struggled for separation of religion from state affairs and criticized the objectives Resolution of 1949. He had foreseen and fore-warned that Islamization policies of some state and non-state actors of Pakistan and their support by Western countries would lead to the strengthening of the force of religious extremism. His speech at 1952 Vienna World Peace Conference in the regard is a classical one. Jeay Sindh Mahaz, since its inception, has made secularism the cornerstone of its program and policies and has pursued this cause since then regardless of the circumstances and the consequences. JSM opposed the Islamization policies of Zulifqar Ali Bhutto and general Ziaul Haque and played a pro-active role during the recent surge in the kidnapping and forced conversion of Hindu girls in Sindh taking the aggrieved community along with. JSM on its own and from the platform of Sindh Progressive Committee protested against the religious discrimination and announced social boycott of the responsible for the kidnapping and conversion. JSM’s motto is that there are no majorities and minorities on the basis of religion or react as far as state citizens are concerned and all the citizens possess equal status and equal rights. iv)	Kalabagh Dam & Water Issue : Kalabagh Dam Project is serious threat to not only the agriculture of Sindh but also the 7000 years old civilization of Sindh.  For many years whole Sindh has remained engulfed in the protests and agitation against this project.  JSM did not lag behind other parties in the struggle for water.  Even, despite many political differences with PPP, it actively participated in protest at Sindh-Punjab border with Benazir Bhutto in 1998. v)	Issue of Education :  No society can progress and no nation can survive without progress in the field of education. JSM believes that Sindhi nation is being denied and deprived of the modern education by external as well as internal forces. On one hand the Mahaz condemns the interference, nepotism, inefficiency and corruption of the state institutions and on the other side opposes the anti-education activities of the political parties even, if they take the colour of nationalism. JSM has fought hard against such policies and activities. Its slogan is that “ the one who is, anti-education can not be pro-Sindh” vi)	Crime in Politics :     Since the days of gernal Zia’s martial law government, crime has crept into the body-Politic of Pakistan.  Sindh is affected more by this disease, which has acquired chronic proportions, since many ethnic and sectarian organizations with chauvinistic tendencies are working here with the support and convince of certain state institutions; though most of such organizations consist of the alien people, some native groups/parties have also fallen prey to this evil which has acquired the status of a business.  JSM threats crime as an anti-politics act and condemn it in any form and an any pretext.  JSM has fought relentlessly against this chronic disease and suffered heavily both within national movement and in popular support, but itmakes no compromise and strictly follows the guidelines of its founder Saeen G.M. Syed that ‘good goal can only be achieved through good means’. The way forward: Sindh’s existence is 7000 years old while Pakistan was created 65 years ago. Sindh opted for Pakistan on the basis of 1940 Resolution, which declares that ………. the constituent units shall be sovereign and autonomous”. 65 years down the road Pakistan has been turned into a highly centralized, coercive, exploitative colonial state where-in Sindh is being treated as a colony. Hence JSM calls to invoke the basic covenant of 1940 thereby accepting the sovereign status of Sindh, the Sindhi people be provided opportunity to use their inherent and inalienable Right of Self-determination, as mentioned in the UN Charter, to decide their future course as a nation.