Geneva, Sept. 22 -- Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz (JSMM) Chairman Shafi Muhammad Burfat has called on the United Nations, international human rights organisations and governments to initiate an international process to examine what he described as systematic political repression, economic exploitation and human rights violations against the Sindhi, Baloch, Pashtun and Seraiki peoples, as well as the populations of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan.

In an official statement and diplomatic appeal, Burfat alleged that Pakistan's state structure had transformed the country's historic nations into "internal colonies of Punjab", depriving them of political and economic self-determination and threatening their languages, cultures, ter...