M Alam Brohi

We own a country of 230 million people. We have a strong and large army; possess nuclear weapons, rich resources including vast agricultural lands and a reasonably large industrial base; a well-recruited and well-trained civil service; and a large network of higher educational institutions. We produce hundreds of PhDs, professors, economists, engineers, and technology experts, […]

For the past year, the nation is on a political cliffhanger. We witnessed the rising political tempers; a phenomenal increase in the popularity of the PTI leadership; the diminishing political fortunes of PDM; the increasing reliance of the coalition regime on the coercive instruments of the state to face the sole opponent’s juggernaut; a gross […]

Notwithstanding the complexion of the pre-partition All India Muslim League dominated by dynastic elite–knighted landlords, feudal chiefs, sardars, nawabs, sajadahnashins–led singlehandedly by Muhammad Ali Jinnah, and whatever the rationale behind the creation of Pakistan, the common people of this part of India and East Bengal played the central role in forcing the All India Congress […]

A country of 230 million people-endowed with rich natural resources, fertile lands, rivers, hardworking and resilient people, vast markets, strategic location, a long coastline, seaports, strong military strength, and economic potential-has been hijacked by a greedy elite masquerading as leaders who have been clawing bit by bit its flesh and making it hollow from within. […]

We recall the PDM had promised to end the stagflation; arrest the inflation; bring down the prices of petroleum products and utilities; stop the devaluation of the Pak currency; rehabilitate the economy; stabilize the political situation; turn the vituperative politics into a decent and civilized political contest; follow the constitutional path and the rule of […]

The high inflation, the shrinking individual and national savings, the increasing unemployment and poverty, the gnawing hunger, the helplessness, the crumbling law and order, the intensifying political tussle, the shameful abuse of the state’s coercive power in dismantling and creating political parties, the torture of political workers, the gagging of media, the falling credibility of […]

Sudan, once the largest Muslim country, has gone through long spells of military rule, hunger, rebellion, and disintegration. However, the current situation in the country is perilous overcasting the very future of the country with a long coastline of 750 kilometres on the Red Sea and one of the busiest Seaports in the Middle East […]

The European nations have travelled a long way going through ups and downs to reach the present democratic and representative form of governance. A few centuries ago, they were all groping in the dark age of absolute monarchs who identified themselves with the state. Louis XIV of France is famously known to have arrogantly said […]

With the news emerging in bits and pieces from the recent huddles of the Corp Commanders and the National Security Council for the trial of the arsonists and rioters suspected to have attacked and set ablaze the security and public properties in military courts under the Army Act, and the ongoing crackdown on the Pakistan […]

With the scores of criminal cases registered against the Chairman, Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf, his arrest in the Al-Qadir Trust case by the National Accountability Bureau, the spontaneous eruption of protests paralyzing the country and the PDM regime, and damaging the most sensitive installations and public property and the announcement of Moulana Fazal Ur Rehman to have […]