M Alam Brohi

Some powers in the mysterious and unpredictable world of Pakistani politics become busy with political trickery when the dates of general elections draw closer. As is their wont, the chessboard is being laid and pawns are being readied to move at the command of the movers and shakers. The sardars and their sons and nephews […]

The year 2022 passed into obscurity leaving, in its wake, a depressing telltale of political polarisation; economic meltdown; unprecedented inflation; ravages of flood; apathy of the federal and provincial administrations; heavier burden of public expenditures; pilferage of precious resources; mutilation of laws; suppression of expression by gun and gold; deafening silence of the people over […]

With the prolonged sit-in of PTI in Islamabad in 2016; the revelations of Panama Leaks involving Mian Nawaz Sharif and his family in corruption; his disqualification by the Supreme Court in 2017; the PTI victory in the general elections of 2018; the refusal of mainstream political parties including PML-N, PPP and JUI to concede defeat […]

The speculations swirling around the appointment of the new Chief of the Army before General Qamar Bajwa hangs his gloves on November 29; the onslaught of the PTI on the twin cities three days before this all-important appointment; the looming threat of a bloody terrorist attack on the long march; the back to back meetings […]

For the first time, I felt constrained to initiate a relief programme in the five villages of taluka Qubo Saeed Khan inhabited by my close and distant relatives after having personally witnessed the devastation caused by the torrential rains and flash floods. The people had abandoned their houses under waist-deep water and taken shelter along […]

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) delivered its judgement in the Toshakhana reference against the former Prime Minister, Imran Khan on Friday the 21 October – just five days after he won 6 out of the 7 National Assembly constituencies from KPK, Punjab and Sindh in the by-elections of 16 October. The ECP disqualified him […]

The by-elections of October 16 have conveyed a clear message. In normal political conditions, the results of the by-elections would not have inspired elaborate comments. However, in the current political impasse, we can hardly afford to ignore the message given by the populace. Imran Khan’s political movement against the ruling coalition has reached its peak. […]

The political, security and economic conditions of the country continue to trouble conscious citizenry. The nation has been grappling with political polarization and the onerous woes of the bad economic situation aggravated by the regime change in April 2022. Two other serious issues brewing up are the resurgence of the security spectre in the scenic […]

The unauthorized recording of conversations of the highest within the fortified walls of high offices has laid bare our national security system. This should have caused alarms ringing about the security lapses in the country. Instead, these audio leaks have provided fodder to our politicians to start a new blame game against each other. The […]

I witnessed the birth of the Pakistan People’s Party in 1967 under Z A Bhutto, its cyclical rise and eclipse under the charismatic leadership of Begum Nusrat Bhutto and Muhtarma Benazir Bhutto and its precipitous fall under Zardaris. In the wake of its humiliating defeat in the successive general elections of 2013 and 2018 in […]