Frankfurt, Germany — May 11, 2026 (ANI): Shafi Burfat, chairman of the Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz (JSSM), accused the Sindh Public Service Commission and Pakistan’s establishment of systematically denying Sindhi young people access to education and employment opportunities in a post on X.
Burfat charged that Sindh is being driven into what he called “the darkness of modern colonialism,” citing political subjugation, resource plunder, unemployment, cultural attacks and the erosion of Sindhi rights under what he described as Punjabi-dominated control. He said institutions that should uphold merit and equal opportunity have been captured to benefit feudal and politically connected families.
He specifically accused the Sindh Public Service Commission of being controlled by a “feudal and slavery-oriented mentality,” arguing that it should instead be a merit-based route for talented youth. Burfat alleged that feudal lords, tribal chiefs, shrine custodians and their relatives receive preferential treatment that allows them to pass exams without genuine merit, while hardworking candidates from ordinary families are deliberately failed through conspiratorial measures.
Describing these actions as more than administrative lapses, Burfat called them part of a deep political and social conspiracy. He said the state deliberately promotes the children of what he termed “anti-Sindh, sold-out, and privileged feudal families” into bureaucracy and positions of power to perpetuate Sindh’s subordination.
Burfat warned that workers’, peasants’, labourers’, teachers’ and middle-class families’ children who try to advance through merit are being pushed into despair and deprivation. He framed the alleged practices as an attack on Sindh’s collective future, intellectual progress, national strength and political awareness.
He urged international organisations and human rights groups to take notice of what he described as dangerous injustice, political interference and feudal domination within Sindh’s education, employment and administrative institutions, calling the alleged stripping away of youth opportunities part of a long-term policy to keep a people subjugated.
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