Today, when I was surfing the
net, I saw a picture on facebook. That picture was posted by a Sindhi
nationalist Page showing some Hajis wearing Ahraams are waving the flag of Azad
Sindhu Desh at Makkah, Saudi Arabia. I was shocked to see that photo because
every Muslim knows that at the time of Hajj all the people around the world are
not recognized by their ethnicity but only by their religion and that is Islam.
All the Hajjis wear the same clothes to show the unity among Muslims.
I think, it is a shameful act done by some lunatic ethnic nationalists. Seculars
and ethnic nationalists always accused religion that it create division among
humans but they forget that at the time of Hajj the religion i.e. Islam removes
and overrides all the ethnic, man-made divisions. All the people from different
part of the world walking side by side, wearing same clothes reciting the same
religious prayers shows the great integrity among humans.
Few years back, I met a guy who is a pure Sindhi nationalist and a great
supporter of Azad Sindhu Desh. During our conversation, I asked some questions
to him and he could not give me a single reply with solid arguments. The
questions were:
1- If Sindh becomes an independent state than how would Sindh prevent the threat
of Kala Bagh Dam?
2- What changes the independent state of Sindh will bring in the lives of common
people of Sindh? 3- Is there any benefit for poor, enslaved Haaris (Farmers) by
the feudalism?
4- Economic condition of Sindh except Karachi is not good enough. How will
Independent Sindh survive?
5- For the security and survival of Independent Sindh, you will have to be
relying on India or you want to integrate with India?
Independence of Sindh is a worst case scenario for the Sindh itself. After the
independence of Sindh there will be no moral or legal way to restrict the rest
of the Pakistan to make Kala bagh dam and according to the people of Sindh, it
is the matter of life and death to them.
I think, Independent Sindh will not bring any positive change to the lives of
poor people of Sindh. They are being slaved by feudalism and they will be
because after independence, the same feudal system will run the government.
Oppression of feudalism will never end.
Sindh’s economic conditions and literacy rate is too low to survive as an
independent state. On the other hand, feudal system will not allow the people to
educate themselves. Without education, no country can excel.
For the security and survival, Independent Sindh will have to depend on Indian
military, like Bangladesh. But in Bangladesh, feudal system was eliminated by
the true leadership of Pakistan i.e. Liaqat Ali Khan after independence that is
why Bangladesh successfully survived without further help of India as a separate
state. But the scenario about Sindh is different. Feudal system has very long
roots in the soil of Sindh. There are two possible way for survival:
1- Allow Indian military to come to Sindh’s soil and defend it against the rest
of the Pakistan, or Integrate into India as another province.
2- In the above mentioned scenarios, there will be no independence for Sindh. It
is far better to be integrated with a Muslim state than with a Non-Muslim state
i.e. India.
Independence of Sindh is not the solution for the problems faced by the people.
Sindh is not enslaved by Pakistan or Punjab etc. but it is enslaved by the
feudal system. They have to eliminate the feudal system to free themselves by
the feudal tyrants.