M Alam Brohi

Sindh, the second-biggest province of the federation, continues to suffer from multiple afflictions ranging from the self-perpetuating rural-urban political divide to the collapse of municipal, educational, and healthcare systems; the acute scarcity of agricultural inputs and irrigation water; the corrupt and dysfunctional administrative apparatus; the worsening law and order situation; the persistent food insecurity in […]

The state is constitutionally responsible towards its citizens without any distinction of caste, creed and class for their fundamental rights, including education and healthcare, security of life, property and honour, livelihood through its executive branches in both federal and provincial territories. In constitutional democracies, the elected political administrations undertake this responsibility for the state in […]

The hollow US claims for human rights, democracy, and global competition with China are falling apart. Impelled by his sinking popularity, the persistent anti-China obsession of the Trumpian white populist politics, and the increasing doubts about the US global leadership within Western allies, President Joe Biden has been taking highly provocative political, economic, and strategic […]

Many Pakistanis – rather an overwhelming majority of them – were ashamed of what had happened to Piryantha Kumara. We also hanged our head in shame when Governor Salman Taseer was murdered by his security guard, Mashaal was brutally beaten to death within the premises of his University and a Christian couple set ablaze. We […]

The country is being torn asunder by religious bigotry, political belligerency, journalistic aberration, and judicial disarray. The constant policy and institutional failures have eroded the state writ and distorted the institutional equation. The situation is grave. The state is under siege and faced with multiple perennial threats. The collective will of its institutions is at […]

The current precarious situation in Afghanistan carrying seeds of multidimensional crisis including famine, hunger, mass displacement of population, civil strife, anarchy, growth of terrorism, escalation of regional and international conflicts, adequately exposes the callous, heartless, and vengeful policy of the US-led west towards the innocent people of Afghanistan more than the Taliban regime.It also painfully […]

It is not only the Federation of Pakistan, which is confronted by serious political, territorial and ethnic fissures. The constant wrong political and economic policies and institutional failures have created serious socio-economic and ideological imbalances and contradictions in our society, which have now morphed into dangerously strong power centres or states within the state. Hamstrung […]

Should we take pride in Pakistan being one of the most important countries of the Muslim world possessing a strong army of over 600,000 soldiers? Or, its formidable conventional firepower and a stock of nuclear arsenal, a huge population of over 200 million and a vibrant workforce? Or, should we lose sleep over its unstable […]

Global power politics has taken a new and challenging direction. With the US exit from Afghanistan, the American leaders have apparently diverted all their resources to the containment of China as well as the potential challenge of multipolarity that has been in offing for some years and being precipitated by the evolving geopolitical and geo-strategic […]

The Sindhi language Bill passed by the Sindh Assembly in July 1972 neither posed any threat to Urdu nor did it aim to expel it from the province. The Bill just restored the status of the Sindhi language in judicial courts, provincial, district and local government offices without barring the simultaneous use of Urdu. Sindhi […]