Conversation with leading Baloch politician Sardar Attaullah Mengal, former Balochistan Chief Minister and founder president of the Balochistan National Party #BNP Bhutto told to opposition parties back in 1970s that army does not want him to withdraw troops from #Balochistan my conversation with #BNP founder Sardar Attaullah Mengal.

Role of Sindh in the Creation of Pakistan

Not many books and papers focus on Sindh’s contribution to the creation of the new state of Pakistan in 1947. This conversation is with Pakistan’s three top historians, intellectuals, politicians, and an academician. Rasool Bux Palijo, author of several books, is a prominent intellectual and founder of Awami Tahreek. Dr. Hamida Khuhro, a research scholar, a historian of Sindh and daughter of Sindh’s first Chief Minister Ayoub Khuhro, and Dr. Jaffer Ahmad, author of several books, former director of Pakistan Area Study Center at the University of Karachi. Dr. Ahmad currently heads the Irteqa Institute of Social Sciences in Karachi.

This dialogue sheds light on the main characters from Sindh in the political movement before the partition in 1947. It also discusses the separation of Sindh from the Bombay Presidency. After invading Sindh in 1842-43, the British Empire merged Sindh, an independent State and country, into Bombay Province. After the decades-long struggle, Sindh regained its status and became a province of the British Empire in 1937.

Ideas, critique, and analysis that Pakistan’s former Prime Minister, Imran Khan, shared in this interview; he does not own them and has acted against his philosophy. Imran Khan apparently used all the historically correct arguments to come into power. His ideas inspired people, he moved people, and he made them believe in him, but in the end, he sold their trust to remain in power with the help of the deep state. His two years in government show he did not mean what he preached in his all political life. Pakistan’s opposition parties rightly call him “Selected PM.” There has not been a single government in Pakistan’s political history to remain in power without having its own party’s majority. The coalition that PTI put together has never been on the same page; it is through the use of state institutions like the

Rasheed Hijab Rajpar was the first Sindhi woman to become a Fulbright Scholar. She held leadership roles in women’s colleges across Sindh province, serving as principal at Sukkur College, Nuzrat College in Hyderabad, and Women’s College in Karachi, as well as Director of Colleges. Her final position was Chairperson of the Hyderabad Board. Alongside her contributions to education, she was a renowned story writer and passionate about literature. In this interview, she shares her life experiences, stories, and reflections.