M Alam Brohi

The Government of Sindh has set in motion a process of unconstitutional allotment of Sindh’s agricultural lands to a federal institution for corporate farming. This has created a new controversy in the federation, which is already confronted with deepening political and economic crises. The logic behind such a divisive decision at a time when the […]

We have a penchant to toy with settled matters, tease sleeping monsters and resurrect old controversies. The question of provincial autonomy confronted the country since inception. It was the main cause for the alienation of former East Pakistan, and the persistent and constant protests of the smaller provinces in this part of Pakistan for over […]

With Pakistan stuck in a quagmire of deepening political and economic crises and, as some recent reports suggest, unable to discharge its responsibilities towards CPEC, two important events took place recently; giving an impetus to the process of change at global and regional levels. As part of the process, the major world economies under BRICS, […]

Technological development has transformed the world into a well-connected global village that has travelled much beyond the primitive management of interstate relations. We are, today, working in a world where, as described by Richard Haas, “very little stays local; just about anyone and anything, from tourists, terrorists, and refugees to email, diseases, dollars, and greenhouse […]

The forces of the status quo are fighting an intense battle to foil the popular challenge to their supremacy notwithstanding the chaos they have created by their wrong plans and priorities. The security conditions are getting worse; the political instability is deepening; the economy is in continuous nosedive; the human rights violations are rampant; the […]

These past few weeks have been very depressing. Leaving alone the worsening political and economic situation, the saddening news of violence against young girls from marginalized families hired for domestic help by the privileged class, and the recurring occurrences of religious intolerance and vigilantism have deeply pained the conscious citizens of the country. The recent […]

The Pakistan People’s Party has become a political and electoral juggernaut in Sindh. Except on a few occasions, it has remained electorally ascendant in the province since its inception. No political party or alliance has ever had enough popular support to challenge its political and electoral dictatorship. Over the years, the electorates of Sindh have […]

The political and economic scenario in the country since February 2023 has been, to say the least, painfully disturbing displaying the depth of the unabashed disregard of the ruling elite and the state institutions towards the constitution, rule of law, and fundamental human rights. Though the nation has been in a sort of perpetual disarray […]

Casually dressed in a sweatshirt and jeans that enhance his boyish looks, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine has pursued the NATO leaders from Bucharest to Vilnius for his beleaguered country’s membership of the military alliance. The success has so far eluded him. He is not daunted by his failed attempts. Seemingly, the European allies including […]

Pakistan, since its inception, has been unsuccessfully striving to have a friction-free relationship with Afghanistan. Though Siamese twins with a sizeable Pashtun population living across the Durand line bound with each other by blood, linguistic, cultural and spiritual links, and economic interdependence, the Afghan leaders had, for unfathomable reasons, no qualms in obstructing the membership […]