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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
The Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz (; translation: Jeay Sindh United Front; JSMM) is one of several major separatist political parties in Sindh, Pakistan, that advocate for the separation of Sindhudesh from Pakistan. Founded in the year 2000, by the ...
; a separatist and liberal
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political party in Sindh, Pakistan who believes in the freedom of Sindhudesh from Pakistan.
Disappearance
Burfat is a fugitive escaping persecution since 1994. Media has reported that Shafi Muhammd Burfat had fled toAfghanistan
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordere ...
where he established his control center in Kabul
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. 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.
On 1 April 2013 home ministry of Pakistan declared JSMM as a terrorist organization and imposed ban. 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.
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".
See also
* G M Sayed * List of fugitives from justice who disappeared * Muzafar Bhutto *Sajjad Shar
Sajjad Shar (Sindhi: سجاد شر) (born 1 March 1986), is the current Secretary General of banned Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz; A political organization working for freedom of Sindhudesh from occupation of Pakistan and was first president of JS ...
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