Reductio Ad Absurdum on May 25, 2022The absurd consequences of the political agitation launched by the PDM soon after the formation of the PTI government in 2018 in terms of political and economic instability, erosion of the national institutions’ credibility and the supremacy of the basic law of the country were more than obvious given the history of the political agitations […]
A Nation in Perpetual Disarray on May 17, 2022Today, Pakistan is passing through a tumultuous, uncertain and explosive situation paralleled by three previous occasions. The country was plunged into a crisis of greater magnitude back in 1970 when the ruling military junta and Z A Bhutto refused to recognise Shaikh Mujeeb-ur-Rehman’s right to form the federal government. The crisis cost us the bigger […]
The Lament of a Manacled Man on May 10, 2022Am I free to write what do I want to – including what I have in my mind or what I have in my heart – notwithstanding many apparent restraining factors – religion, morality, the sensitivity of the state and state institutions, intellectual honesty, precincts of good and bad for my nation, for my society […]
Is MQM-P the Sole Representative of Urban Sindh? — Part III on April 28, 2022The ruling Pakistan People’s Party has signed a separate agreement with the MQM-P on the erroneous assumption that the latter is the sole representative of the Urban Sindh recognizing it as an equal stakeholder in Sindh. This land is historically owned, loved and cherished as a common home by all the people except the MQM […]
Is MQM-P the Sole Representative of Urban Sindh (Part II) on April 26, 2022Urban Sindh is not a well-defined term. It is thus far devoid of any consensual interpretation. This term was used 50 years ago when the leaders of the Urdu speaking population of Sindhi sought the indulgence of the then Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto to fix a quota for their community in the federal and […]
Is MQM-P the sole representative of Urban Sindh? on April 21, 2022The Sindh Taraqi Pasand Party hosted a ‘Qomi Conference’ on Sunday, April 17 in Hyderabad to appraise the serious consequences of the agreements signed by the Pakistan Muslim League (N) and the Pakistan People’s Party with MQM-P to get its seven votes for the no-confidence motion against the Imran Khan regime. The Conference was attended […]
A Fatal Blow to Education in Sindh (Part IX) on April 14, 2022Surprisingly the known educational institutions in the private sector and those under the armed forces like city and Grammar, Bahria, Air force and Army Public Schools, Army Cadet Colleges, Beacon House, Lahore University of Management Sciences, National University of Science and Technology, Agha Khan University have been far ahead of Sindh’s public sector schools, colleges […]
Back to Square One on April 6, 2022The consequences of the agitation started by the opposition from day one could not have been different from what the legal and constitutional crisis we are having today. We have made every institution controversial. The fairness and transparency of no subsequent election after the fateful elections of 1970 have been recognised. The Armed Forces of […]
A Fatal Blow to Education in Sindh (Part VIII) on March 31, 2022The wave of popular politics in the late 1960s and the mid-1970s, followed by religiosity under a dictator seeking legitimacy for his unconstitutional rule swept away the human values, social norms and cultural and sectarian tolerance from our evolving polity. The impact of this change hit hard the service delivery institutions including education. The democratic […]
The Spectacle of No-Confidence Motion on March 19, 2022The nation is gripped by a political polarization intensified by the no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Imran Khan. The political agitation launched by the PDM in 2019 against the PTI Government has reached its crescendo turning into a ‘do or die’ phenomenon. This spectacle will continue holding the nation in awe and fear and straining […]