M Alam Brohi

Even the title is very unpleasant and heartbreaking to read especially for Noor’s immediate family. How will they reconcile with such an enormous and tragic loss? They enjoyed 27 years of her giggles and frolicking; watched her crawling, learning to walk – falling and getting up in her bid to be on her feet; they […]

Prime Minister Imran Khan, in his recent visit to Gwadar, announced that he would initiate talks with the Baloch nationalists to end the long festering insurgency which has devoured thousands of precious lives and weakened national unity impeding social and economic development in the province. This initiative should have been taken long ago in the […]

The power of people perhaps weighed on the mind of Edmund Burke when he exhorted his countrymen, “when bad men combine, the good must associate.” The question bothering me is why good men of my Sindh don’t do so and remain indifferent to their land’s devastation by Tatars. The dilemma of the Sindhi masses is […]

For the past four decades, Afghanistan has been at the centre of a skewed Pakistan-US relationship, notwithstanding their cross-purpose objectives and strategic interests. The American goals in Afghanistan were transactional, largely driven by specific motivations: to bloody the nose of the erstwhile Soviet Union as well as to eliminate the well-entrenched Al-Qaeda along with its […]

Our public representatives of the country are debating on the National Budget. Unfortunately their speeches focus more on trifle political questions than the complex, data filled national document. While the opposition speeches revolve around the debt increase, price hike, climate change without doable suggestions on how to increase agricultural yield; fill the cavernous gap between […]

Prime Minister Imran Khan, in a June 19 interview with a foreign television network, definitively put to rest important speculations. Namely, that Pakistan was not engaged in talks about hosting American military airbases so that the US could monitor the evolving political and military situation in Afghanistan in the post-drawdown years. Since this was the […]

The occupation of Sindh’s lands is not a new phenomenon. This saga started back in September 1948 with the new rulers sidelining the native leaders and arbitrarily designating Karachi a federal territory. Karachi was declared one-district. Karachi Development Authority was established in 1957. In the name of development, many ancestral villages surrounding Karachi, which were […]

The beauty of the Sunday crowd was that it reflected not only the 12 component political parties of the Sindh Action Committee (SAC), but also the civil society, all ethnic and linguistic communities of the province, and the displaced farming families. Some leaders of the SAC and other protesters were accompanied by their families. This […]

Responding to the call of the Sindh Action Committee, the people of Sindh converged at the sprawling place in front of the main gate of the Bahria Town Karachi (BTK) on June 6 to show their angst at the forcible appropriation of lands of Sindh and indigenous farming communities in a brutal way, bulldozing old […]

Notwithstanding his strong popularity, Bhutto turned to strong-arm politics intimidating and imprisoning his opponents. The country was back on the beaten track of political confrontation, antagonism, palace intrigues and strained civil-military relationships with our able and wise politicians lunging at each other’s throat. Nobody thought of the Constitution, democracy, political tolerance, human rights. Bhutto did […]