M Alam Brohi

The local print media has carried out a phenomenal report about massive corruption in the funds taken as loans from various international banks and countries for the Secondary Education Reform Support Programme from 2012 to 2018 by the Government of Sindh (GoS). The funds were squandered or swindled over this period without any verifiable improvement […]

Conscious nations prioritise the future of their young generation. The institutions concerned with educating, grooming, and preparing their children for careers and professions are sacrosanct to them. Teaching is looked upon as a highly noble and respectful profession. Teachers in such nations are also well-conscious of the respect that their profession commands in society. This […]

The service delivery institutions thrive under the management of honest and committed managers or controllers. As the saying goes, the fish starts rotting from the head. Similarly, corruption and mismanagement seeps down and poisons the entire swamp destroying human values, social norms and professional commitments. There is no shortage of funds or workforce and professionals […]

What we have so far identified as the salient factors leading to the steep decline in the education standards in Sindh are the feudal mindset; the clientele political system introduced and perpetuated by the ruling party; the widespread nepotism and the recruitment of incompetent teachers under the patron-client system; the unlawful appointments and shoulder promotions; […]

Prime Minister Imran Khan’s visit to China was significant from many perspectives. Since his first visit to Beijing in October 2019, many political and strategic issues of bilateral, regional and international concern had surfaced to the fore, particularly in the South and South-West Asia that needed to be reviewed at the highest leadership level to […]

The National Security Policy (NSP) is said to be a consensus document evolved after eight years of threadbare discussions and consultations at various governmental and strategic tiers and close coordination among all the governing and controlling institutions. These discussions examined the strengths and weaknesses, inherent or self-created, in our culturally diverse society; extensively reviewed the […]

The feudal-dominated Pakistan People’s Party, the provincial Legislative Assembly and the political administration have deliberately meted out a step-motherly treatment to the education to prevent or slow down the growth of a vocal and vibrant middle class to challenge their centuries-old social, economic and political dominance, power and privilege; claiming its legitimate share in the […]

The search committees are camouflaged to the unlawful appointments and generous extensions in tenures of the sycophants in violation of rules and regulations. The provincial leaders are behaving like medieval utilitarian rulers and absolute monarchs. The feudal mindset with all its malevolence is manifest; the legal wizards to bend or invent ways to bypass rules […]

The hypocritical antics of the successive PPP provincial administrations to act as champions of the provincial autonomy surpassing the fervour of the nationalist political parties by word and practice have worn thin. The real purpose behind their impulsive actions has been the malevolent attempt to amass more powers to perpetuate the clientele political system in […]

The Provincial Cabinet of Ministers, in its meeting of 30 December, decided to reconstitute the ‘Search Committee’ for appointment of the Vice-Chancellors of the seven public universities. The earlier search committee headed by a former Vice-Chancellor and a Ph.D. holder and comprising three former Vice Chancellors and two former senior bureaucrats have been dismissed. The […]