M Alam Brohi

I was posted as Consul in our Mission in Birmingham when the iconic son of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was martyred near the Bhuttos’ ancestral house -70 Clifton in Karachi on 20 September 1996. The gloom of that tragic evening is etched in my memory when I was showered with queries from angry and worried Pakistanis […]

A columnist has put it succinctly that the “Pakistani elite lives in a state of denial believing that the status quo in which they live an affluent life insulated from broader society is permanent. It is not. The bubble is collapsing, and the result will not be pretty”. This may strike pessimistic to some of […]

Pakistan was achieved through a democratic movement and given its territorial making or geographical composition. It could have been kept together by functional democratic institutions as a federal and parliamentary state with adequate autonomy to its constituent states. The third Martial Law in the country by General Zia was a fatal blow to democracy in […]

As a conscious citizen of this country, I have traversed a stream of jolting events and violent turns of history in my country that, over years, have caused me disillusionment and reinvigorated too my hopes in the resilience of this land. Many countries have survived more tumultuous and tragic histories than that of Pakistan and […]

Education plays the most crucial role in the development of a society and a nation. The pivotal role of education in nation-building can hardly be overemphasized. The Muslims had always been in search of knowledge by teaching and learning. The western nations were groping in the dark alleys of ignorance when a Muslim society in […]

Though strategically situated, Pakistan came into being with certain security compulsions. The bigger dominion in the east acceded to the division of the Sub-continent with a heavy heart and never spared any chance to destabilise Pakistan or undo the division of the Bharat Mata. Ignoring the principles of the division, it sent its troops into […]

Geographically, Pakistan occupies a significant place sitting on the mouth of the three most important and volatile regions including the South, South West and Central Asia with land and maritime links with equally important countries including India, China, Iran, Afghanistan and the world at large. It has access to Central Asia through China and Afghanistan. […]

The formation of PNA at the behest of some powers and its no-holds-barred offensive election campaign poisoned the political landscape of the country. With insinuations and innuendos that Bhutto was an illegitimate son of Sir Shahnawaz Bhutto from his Hindu keep was the extremity of the political and moral waywardness on the part of certain […]

In early 2019, Sardar Akhtar Jan Mengal, answered Hamid Mir’s question about why he did not join the Federal Government when he had concluded an agreement with the Pakistan Tehrik-e- Insaf for support to Prime Minister Imran Khan. He stated that the people of Balochistan had not mandated him to grab the opportunity of acquiring […]

Every Pakistani took a sigh of relief when the Apex Court of the country, in its verdict, admonished the government on the draconian use of force to stop the charged long march of PTI. This averted bloody clashes between the PTI workers and the police and rangers cordoning off Islamabad. The day-long clashes between the […]