Frankfurt, Aug. 10 -- Shafi Burfat, Chairman of Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz (JSMM), along with representatives of the Sindhudesh National Movement and the global Sindhi diaspora, has issued an open diplomatic appeal to the United Nations, international financial institutions, democratic governments and the wider international community, calling for the protection of Sindh's territorial integrity and the exercise of the right to self-determination through a UN-supervised referendum.

In the appeal, addressed to the UN Secretary-General, UN Security Council, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, IMF, World Bank, global think tanks and foreign governments, the Sindhi representatives described what they termed an "existential crisis" facing t...