Pakistan Oppressed Nations Movement
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The Pakistan Oppressed Nations Movement (PONM) is an alliance of several ethnic nationalist parties in Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

: Sindh Taraqi Pasand Party
Sindh Taraqi Pasand Party
Sindh Taraqi Pasand Party formally called Jeay Sindh Taraqi Pasand Party, is a political party in the Sindh province of Pakistan. Dr. Qadir Magsi is the chairman of Sindh Taraqi Pasand Party.- External links :*...

, Sindhi Awami Tehreek, Balochistan National Movement, Pakhtoonkhwa Milli Awami Party, Seraiki Movement, etc.

Prominent Leaders of PONAM are Sardar Ataullah Mengal
Ataullah Mengal
Sardar Ataullah Khan Mengal , popularly known as Sardar Ataullah Mengal, is a well-known political and feudal figure of Pakistan hailing from Balochistan. He has been campaigning a nationalist and separatist movement in Pakistan for over four decades. He is the head of the Shahizai Mangal tribe...

, Mehmood Khan Achakzai, Rassol Bux Palijo, Dr. Qadir Magsi, Syed Jalal Mehmmood Shah and other Sindhi
Sindhi nationalism
Sindhi nationalism is the political expression of ethno-national consciousness of the Sindhi people, who inhabit the ethno-linguistic region of Sindh started by the Ghulam Murtaza Shah, which lies in current day Pakistan....

, Baluch
Baloch nationalism
Baloch nationalism is a movement which claims that the Baloch people, an ethno-linguistic group mainly found in Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan are a nation...

, Pashtun and Seraiki ethnic nationalists. Although it is not a political party, but a grouping of ethnic nationalist parties, they support each others candidates in election. They constitute a large group in Balochistan
Balochistan (Pakistan)
Balochistan is one of the four provinces or federating units of Pakistan. With an area of 134,051 mi2 or , it is the largest province of Pakistan, constituting approximately 44% of the total land mass of Pakistan. According to the 1998 population census, Balochistan had a population of...

 provisional assembly, where they have won a total of ten out of sixty-six seats. It is present in Sindh
Sindh
Sindh historically referred to as Ba'ab-ul-Islam , is one of the four provinces of Pakistan and historically is home to the Sindhi people. It is also locally known as the "Mehran". Though Muslims form the largest religious group in Sindh, a good number of Christians, Zoroastrians and Hindus can...

 as well, but is more popular in Balochistan
Balochistan (Pakistan)
Balochistan is one of the four provinces or federating units of Pakistan. With an area of 134,051 mi2 or , it is the largest province of Pakistan, constituting approximately 44% of the total land mass of Pakistan. According to the 1998 population census, Balochistan had a population of...

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