M Alam Brohi

Sindh was the most prosperous national state of the Sub-continent of India since centuries with water resources, agriculture, forests, bustling Seaports, trade and commerce, economic connectivity within its frontiers through River Indus and with the cities of Bombay, Gujrat, Ahmedabad, Banaras through the Kathiawar peninsula, and the Central Asian towns of Samarkand and Bukhara and […]

The peace deal, as termed by Donald Trump, between the United Arab Emirates and Israel created ripples in the muddy waters of the Muslim world sparking a sharp reaction from Iran and Turkey. The backgrounds for their outrage are different. Iran considers the peace deal against it while in Turkey’s perception; the move gives greater […]

Since the swearing in of the PTI coalition administration in Islamabad, the talk of the division of Sindh into two provinces, or the separation of Karachi from Sindh as a federal city or handing over the Metropolis to the Army for good years has shown surprising consistency. This sinister campaign against the territorial integrity of […]

The veteran bureaucrat, Roedad Khan, in one of his recent articles, says that Prime Minister Imran Khan must succeed because in the event of his failure, a political and social revolution in its most extreme form is inevitable in Pakistan. If all goes well, Imran will go down in history as the savior of Pakistan. […]

China, in recent years, has not indulged in aggression against any country. It has resolved all its border and territorial issues with neighbouring countries and other states by peaceful means and negotiations – no matter how strenuous these may have been. China pursued this policy to resolve its border disputes with Russia, Central Asian Republics, […]

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was a liberal leader of world stature at par with Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founding father of Pakistan. While M.A. Jinnah was a hardcore realist, Pandit Nehru was an idealist. He harboured a grand idea about the independent India being the leader of the South East Asia. He knew that the Sub-continent […]

Before the new country came into existence, Karachi was a neat, clean and bustling city with a sprawling secretariat, monumental structures of architectural grandeur, buzzing shopping streets, educational institutions, public transport facilities, recreation and entertainment spots including bars, night clubs and casinos, a busy Seaport and a railway that linked it with the other towns […]

The historic Resolution of March 1940 leaves no ambiguity whatsoever about the structural foundation of the state of Pakistan determining clearly that it would be a federation comprising all the north-western Muslim majority states. Although Bengali Muslims were in the lead in the movement for Pakistan, Sindh in this part of the Subcontinent was the […]

Despite continuous pressure, China has resisted the Western demands for comprehensive political and economic reforms keeping in mind the debacle of Mikhail Gorbachev in ‘perestroika and glasnost’ in the late 1980s leading to the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Au contraire, China has kept a tight lid on political reforms and pursued a measured policy […]