M Alam Brohi

The politics is the game of possibilities. Wise politicians leave some points of compromise. Heading into a dead end is antithesis to political sagacity and reflects a mindset of ‘now or never’. We have experienced this umpteen times in our short history. The result has always been distressing with a long spell of unconstitutional rule. […]

The people of Sindh from the black shores of the Arabian Sea to the grave of General John Jacob have been demonstrating unremittingly against the Pakistan Islands Development Authority (PIDA) and the usurpation of their coastal belt by the Federation. The demonstrations not only have displayed the extent and intensity of the Sindhis’ anger on […]

Since his ascendancy to power in 2013, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has not been only promoting the racist and fascist Hindu Rashtra of RSS to the utmost peril of the minority communities especially the Muslims who roughly form 16% of the huge Indian population, he has also radicalized his foreign and security policy turning the […]

‘The democracy in action’ were the words uttered by the Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin to the US President Jimmy Carter witnessing a session of Knesset (Parliament) in his maiden visit to the Jewish state in March 1979 when the parliamentary debate descended into vituperation. He whispered all this to the US leader with a […]

The unpublicized Pakistan Islands Development Authority ordinance (PIDA) issued by the President and published in the Gazette of Pakistan on 2 September 2020 caused commotion in Sindh. No sooner than the PIDA came to public notice, the people of Sindh responded spontaneously to the calls for protest by the comparatively smaller political parties, civil society, […]

The Pakistan Coastal Development Authority issued by the President recently has sparked a controversy between the Federation and the province of Sindh over the ownership of Bundal (Bhandar) and Dingy Islands situated at a small distance from Karachi. The Sindh claims the ownership of the Islands on the basis of the Constitutional Article 172, while […]

Prime Minister Imran Khan visited Karachi on 5 September and announced an ambitious Karachi Transformation Plan costing Rs.1100billion which includes the daunting problems of drinking water supply, sewage treatment plan, solid waste management, removal of encroachments from natural waterways and flood drains and circular railway track – to be implemented by a joint committee of […]

The leaders of the Social Democratic Party addressed a corner meeting in Ibrahim Hyderi village in Karachi on 12 September. They also took a round of the village along with the local community leaders. What we witnessed was shocking. An historic village of fishermen existing since centuries was in a sorrowful state of neglect with […]

No sooner than the demise of the founder of the country, the senior leadership of Pakistan began committing monumental mistakes in the nation building disregarding the democratic aspirations of the Eastern wing and the small federating units. The power tussle in the centre distracted the leadership from constitution making, elections and establishment of a genuine […]

Sindh as an independent country with borders stretching, at times, to the Sahiwal in the Punjab and Sibbi in Baluchistan, was known to the Central Asian or Caucasian region and the Arabian Peninsula for its prosperity, hospitality and generosity. The saints, travelers and wanderers passing through it had all praise for its people. The famous […]