Shafi Muhammad Burfat | |
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Born | |
Status | never apprehended |
Other names | Shafi Burfat |
Occupation | Politician |
Known for | separatist leader |
Spouse | Yasmeen Burfat |
Children | Rahul Latif Shahmir Khan Balaach Khan Jeysen |
Relatives | Allah Dino Burfat (father) Allah Dini Burfat (mother) |
Website | shafiburfat |
Shafi Muhammad Burfat [a] (born November 25, 1965) is the founder and current chairman of Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz; a separatist and liberal political party in Sindh, Pakistan who believes in the secession of Sindhudesh from Pakistan.
Burfat is a fugitive escaping persecution since 1994. Media has reported that Shafi Muhammd Burfat had fled to Afghanistan where he established his control center in Kabul. [1] [2] 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. [3]
On 1 April 2013 home ministry of Pakistan declared JSMM as a terrorist organization and imposed ban. [4] 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. [5]
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". [6]