Syed Mohibullah Shah

Syed Mohibullah Shah

  • A broken social contract

    A broken social contract

    A broken social contract negates cherished values and opposes people's social, economic and political empowerment

  • Stability without legitimacy?

    Stability without legitimacy?

    Developing human resources is expensive and time-consuming and Pakistan cannot develop without investment

  • Water, power and politics

    Water, power and politics

    Instead, it would have powerful chairman with three-year term, appointed at prime minister’s discretion

  • Law of equitable management

    Law of equitable management

    As waters downstream of Kotri Barrage have decreased and barely trickle is reaching sea, sea levels have been rising

  • Enlightenment at home

    Enlightenment at home

    Culture of questioning status quo, acquiring excellence to solve problems appears repeatedly in Shah Latif’s verses

  • Struggle between state and society

    Struggle between state and society

    State is a creation of the will of the people and accountable to society which is the mother association

  • Money talks, but does it listen to women?

    Money talks, but does it listen to women?

    Equal rights and equal opportunities for women have remained a distant dream waiting to be realized in Pakistan. But instead of providing...

  • Wisdom of empowerment

    Wisdom of empowerment

    An internally displaced flood-affected family sits in a tent at a makeshift camp in Jamshoro district of Sindh province on September 26, 2022. —...

  • Shah Latif: Sindh’s celebrated reformer

    The death anniversary of Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai, Sindh’s most celebrated poet-reformer will be observed on Friday in Bhit Shah .Regarding his...

  • Development is for the people: Part - II

    Development processes are meant to empower people and add to their social, cultural, economic and political wellbeing. If people remain...

  • Development is for the people: Part - I

    Every government in Pakistan has made tall claims about development and delivering wonderful benefits to the people in its name; and yet Pakistan...

  • The change constant

    In 1997, in a meeting with the Pakistani prime minister, former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad said that the constant change in...

  • Shah Latif: a liberal democrat

    “Peacocks are dead and the crows are ruling the country”. So lamented Shah Latif as his homeland fell into hands of charlatans piling miseries...

  • Shah Latif’s message of wisdom

    “Learn to distinguish between the flickering light of a night lamp and the shining rays of the rising sun”. So said Shah Latif, the polymath...

  • The genius of Shah Latif

    The genius of Shah Latif

    Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai whose 270th anniversary will be observed tomorrow is known as the great Sufi poet of Sindh. His poetry is recited and...

  • Alone with the burden of history

    The story of Palestine is like the story of no other country. It is spread over millennia and at any time in history, it has always attracted the...

  • Unanswered question of independence

    Was the independence of Pakistan from the British Raj in 1947 an act of de-colonization or merely a communal event? And is it any comfort or...

  • Unfinished business of independence: Part - II

    In the first part of our discussion, we talked about how a modern 20th century democratic state was high-jacked by medievalism 73 years ago and is...

  • Unfinished business of independence

    Part - IAs the state of Pakistan secured freedom from colonialism after WW2, did the people of Pakistan also secure liberation from the inequities...

  • Islands for elite capture?

    As if we didn’t already have enough controversies raging through the length and breadth of our society, another one has been added in the name of...