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Ambassador M. Alam BrohiDaily Times |
Though the controversy over the six canals downstream of Kalabagh, based on a water availability certificate issued by IRSA, erupted in July 2024 when...
This country has suffered a lot at the hands of imprudent leaders, incompetent bureaucrats, adventurist generals, self-centred political dynasties and...
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” — George Orwell After hearing of the postponement of...
After hearing of the postponement of the long march to Islamabad by Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf, I took a sigh of relief. I also posed an honest question...
Though the war has stalemated, the indirect talks between Iran and the USA have not collapsed – threatening pasturing, pause in exchange of...
The USA security architecture constructed around the security of Israel, and the protection of Arab allies in the Middle East particularly the ruling...
The war in the Middle East has stalemated. Notwithstanding its economic, military, and technological strength, the USA has failed to defeat Iran. The...
Federations particularly those created by the will of the geographically and historically recognized political and cultural sub-nationals, require a...
Pakistan has been facing one crisis after the other since its birth. It lost its founder, Muhammad Ali Jinnah within months; its first Prime Minister,...
President Asif Ali Zardari has apparently taken a tough stand on the division of Sindh as part of the establishment’s plan of carving out more...
We have big and sprawling cities faced with chronic municipal problems, weak law and order, and lax building and housing regulations. They have grown...
The tribal courts generally known as Jirga system are flourishing in Sindh and Balochistan where half lettered landlords, feudal chiefs, Sardars,...
As put by a fellow columnist, a leader can say that the system has collapsed. It sounds like an admission without holding anyone accountable. The...
The Islamabad MoU signed on 17 June between Pakistan, Iran and USA to pause the war for 60 days, and allow the resumption of the negotiations in...
We are at a crossroads, struggling to understand why all the known systems of governance we tried in the past seven decades of the independence of...
Is today a day of celebration? What should we celebrate? Do we have something to celebrate after these long years of independence? Do we not have more...
“The Saudis should know that a paper agreement with Turkey and Pakistan will not bring them security, just as years of one-sided milking by the...
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts...
“A Government is nothing more than the combined force of society, or the united power of the multitude, for the peace, order, safety, good and...
Balochistan is burning; the flames of Baloch rebellion and TTP’s religious militancy have reached the outskirts of the provincial capital; the...
The Balochistan insurgency has intensified with a widening outreach, with its ferocious militia - the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) – attacking...
Humanity would exist in a violent ‘state of war’ where everyone is pitted against everyone else. Thomas Hobbes. The collapse of the Islamabad MoU...
“The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”“Man’s perpetual and restless desire for power after power, that ceaseth only in...
“Facts are stubborn things. Let us dare to read, think, speak and write.”John Adams The US leaders seemingly have overcome their war fatigue and...
Notwithstanding the MoU signed with great fanfare by the USA and Iran as parties to the conflict, and Pakistan as guarantor, the signatories agreed to...
“In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” George Orwell.“Facts are stubborn things.” Let us dare to read, think, speak,...
The first child of Z. A. Bhutto and Begum Nusrat was born on this day, 21st June 1952, with rosy cheeks. He was named Benazir – a Persian and Urdu...
‘It may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.’ — Dr Henry Kissinger. The USA President Donald Trump and...
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” George Orwell. It was not only Israel which had a perceived security threat...
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face, forever,” George Orwell on totalitarianism. The Shah, at the behest...
“If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful, and murder...
The disagreement between the federal government and the provinces over the distribution of net federal tax revenues this fiscal year hampered the...
With the USA’s policy of China containment in mind, the Chinese leader Xi Jinping advised President Donald Trump that their countries should not...
Nehru was over-conscious of the strategic situation of the Subcontinent lying at the mouth of vital regions of South-East Asia, Central Asia, the...
In the first part of my column, I dealt with the factors leading to the survival of this old evil practice in regions inhabited by tribes under their...
The Sindhi words ‘Karo Kari’ literally mean blackened, stained or disgraced, and are used to describe a man (Karo) and woman (Kari) involved in...
The Sindhi words ‘Karo Kari’ literally mean blackened, stained, disgraced, and are used to describe a man (Karo) and woman (Kari) involved in...
We are living in dangerous times. The world is on the edge. The rule-based international order stands badly mauled. The foreign and security policy of...
During the six-week-long war involving intensive airstrikes on Iran targeting its military and civil infrastructure, the combined forces of the USA...
In the Foreign Service of Pakistan, two stations – Sudan and North Korea – are known as very hard places, not because of any security problem but...
War is hell. Only the dead have seen the end of it. This war in the Middle East has killed thousands, including senior political and military leaders...
Pakistan has pulled off a spectacular diplomatic feat by saving the world from a catastrophic escalation potentially spiralling into a Third World...
The evil coalition’s war against Iran has entered its fourth week. The epic fury has been demonstrated by the combined military firepower of the...
We are in a campaign in which we are bringing the full strength of the IDF to the battle, as never before, to ensure our existence and our future. But...
The greater Asian region has turned volatile, given the unfolding axis of Israel, India, and Afghanistan, the defiance of the Afghan Taliban to end...
The combined invasion of Iran by the USA and its vassal state Israel on Saturday morning has plunged the world into an uncertain situation, dealing a...
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