M Alam Brohi

Has the bubble of the PDM alreadyburst after occupying a short but tumultuous pied-a-terre in the choppy politics of Pakistan? It seems so. The contradictions inherent in the alliance finally surfaced to bring the PDM at a crossroads where it found no other option than falling for the baitof bye-elections and Senate polls as strategized […]

With the native officers manning the administration at all levels since the past one decade, the sorrows and agonies of the people of Sindh have leapfrogged because of a nexus between the dishonest political leadership and weak administrative machinery deliberately filled with corrupt, vulnerable and spineless officers. At every step, we come across stunning instances […]

Sindhi leaders, believing in the pledges made in thePakistan Resolution of March 1940, passed a resolution in the Sindh Assembly in 1943 extending whole hearted support to the creation of Pakistan. They embraced a massive number of Muslims displaced from their ancestral homes in India in 1947; hosted the federal government and constructed sprawling colonies […]

Our short history does not show that we have ever valued our freedom. For this painful situation, our bureaucratic and military, elected civilian leaders and their partners in power are culpably responsible. These rulers kept the masses deprived of the basic needs of life – education, healthcare, and access to clean drinking water, rule of […]

The country is facing religious extremism, disinformation systematically disseminated by adversarial powers, escalating tension on eastern border, mounting foreign and security policy challenges,economic morbidity, and political instability.  Aggravating these challengesis the agitational politics being carried on by the hotchpotch coalition of the opposition euphemistically called Pakistan Democratic Movement spearheaded by a Moulana who calls it […]

Since there will soon be a new administration in Washington DC, many countries of the strategically important regions must be busy in reviewing the briefs on their relations with the USA. We can safely count the Middle East, South Asia and the East Asia and Pacific in these regions. Pakistan is one of the most […]

Since the day I returned to my native land, I have beenkeeping myself connected with the evolving social and political trends in the Sindh society. My first observation is that we are over-possessive of what we already have in terms of culture, social compactness, economic resources and jobs, and do not try to improve upon […]

The PTI regime has finally decided to shift the PIA Headquarters from the mega city of Karachi to Islamabad. This measure was in the pipeline for some time. The federal government may have some compelling reasons for its decision but the people of Sindh and Balochistan, the PIA employees and their representative bodies have equally […]

Sindh needs to have a new social and political Magna Carta shaking out of the primitive tribal, ethnic, social, economic, political and ideological clutches which have been impeding its journey to modernization. It does not have a growing middle class nor has made any strident progress into industrial economic structure. It is chronically dependent on […]

The disturbing news of the martyrdom of Benazir triggered violent protests and riots overwhelming the country especially her native province of Sindh. The people demonstrated their maddening anger by pulverizing everything coming in their way. Cars were burnt; banks looted; buildings set on fire; railway tracks and stations destroyed. Nothing remained safe from the public […]