A.K. Brohi

Pakistani diplomat
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IntroPakistani diplomat
PlacesPakistan
isPolitician Diplomat Lawyer
Work fieldLaw Politics
Gender
Male
BirthSindh
Death11 December 1987Islamabad
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Biography

Allah Bukhsh Karim Bukhsh Brohi (Urdu: الله بخش کریم بخش بروہی‎; Sindhi: الھ بخش ڪريم بخش بروھي‎ known as A.K. Brohi) was a prominent Pakistani politician and lawyer. Originating from Shikarpur in Sindh, his sister Husn Afroze was married to veteran politician Qaim Ali Shah, but died of breast cancer in 1971. He is the first partner, and mentor of famous Indian lawyer Ram Jethmalani as acknowledged in his authorized biography. He also served as the High Commissioner of Pakistan in India from 1 February 1960 to 31 March 1961.
Brohi has written a long "preface" (13 pp.) of the book of brigadier general S. K. Malik (i. e. Malik ul-Khan) The Quranic Concept of War (1979), a manual of the brigadier's impression of military tactics from early Islamic times, which has been reprinted in Pakistan and India.
He was a scholar and author affiliated with the Traditionalist School of metaphysics (more precisely René Guénon, Frithjof Schuon and Martin Lings).
His younger brother Ali Ahmad Brohi, who died in 2003, was also a writer and scholar, more particularly on Sindhi culture.

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