M Alam Brohi

Countries, nations, societies, and political and social organizations are governed by constitutions, laws and regulations. The system of governance has passed through a long evolutionary trajectory to reach the modern age. Even all the known faiths are based on a system of reward and punishment for good and bad deeds in the world hereafter. The […]

The civilised world recognises the process of dialogue as the most effective way to resolve political and constitutional deadlocks or diplomatic impasses. However, the intentions and the purpose underpinning the process count more than talks. The success or breakdown of dialogue depends on the will of the engaging parties to find a middle path for […]

Beloved Pakistan is stuck in a political, economic and constitutional quagmire. No institution–the executive, the parliament, the judiciary, the Election Commission of Pakistan and the establishment–seems to be able to pull it out of this ever-deepening morass, other than a bold and decisive move by you as the leader of the country. The nation is […]

Notwithstanding the disapproval by the superior courts displayed from time to time, a parallel system of justice called “Jirga” dating back centuries has persistently survived in some tribes of our society. The tribal chiefs or notables of a tribe or region intercede in a festering conflict within their tribe or between two separate tribes to […]

We have been celebrating 23 March as our National Day every year since the day, the unwell and fragile Quaid, a man of irreproachable integrity and indomitable will, bequeathed to us an independent and sovereign country, and renew our pledge to make Pakistan a liberal, democratic and progressive country. But we, as a nation, have […]

Once again, in its short history, Pakistan is today confronted with multiple crises that jeopardise its existence as an independent and sovereign country. However, the economic meltdown, political anarchy and terrorism are the imminent threats the country has to grapple with on an emergent basis. The tragedy is that the current rulers have no clear-cut […]

I lost my second child, Khadija, on Monday, March 6, in Larkana. It was all sudden and quick; leaving us with no option other than to bow our heads to the will of the Creator. The loss of a child causes sharp, deep and lasting pain. She was hardly 50. As it goes, life is […]

The federal government, quite surprisingly, conceded to carry out a digital population and housing census beginning on March 1, and ending in April. This is the first time we have switched from manual census to digitization of the population and housing without any proper public awareness campaign in the country. The decision for the digitization […]

As a nation, we are at a crossroads. We face a perennial threat to our existence. Our economy is on the cusp of collapse and the politics are in disarray. The state institutions are at loggerheads functioning for cross purposes. The Constitution is losing its sanctity. The populace is in misery overwhelmed by disillusionment and […]

The imminent economic meltdown the country is faced with is the sad consequence of the continuous wrong policy decisions, financial mismanagement, corruption and the ostentatious way of living by the elite. The Governments and in parallel the establishment remained addicted to foreign economic aid shying away from structural economic reforms or at least putting in […]