| Allah Bukhsh Karim Bukhsh Brohi | |
|---|---|
| Born | Sind, British India |
| Died | Islamabad, Pakistan |
| Other names | A K Brohi |
Allah Bukhsh Karim Bukhsh Brohi (Urdu: الله بخش کریم بخش بروہی) (popularly known as A K Brohi) was a prominent politician and lawyer from Sindh, Pakistan. He is the first partner, and mentor of famous Indian Lawyer Ram Jethmalani as acknowledged in his authorized biography.
Allah Bukhsh Karim Bukhsh Brohi was appointed as Law Minister in the cabinet of Prime Minister Muhammad Ali Bogra in 1954. he was Pakistan’s Ambassador to India in the early sixties. In the latter position he was instrumental in getting the Indus Waters Treaty signed. He was re-appointed as Law Minister in the late seventies, and was Ambassador-at-Large and/or Rector of the Islamic University at the time of his death in 1987.
A. K. Brohi was a lawyer and later a jurist who held many official positions in the Government of Pakistan, including ministerial positions under military rule. His chief contribution is through a number of keynote addresses which have been collected in booklets. These include Islam in the Modern World, A Faith to Live By and Adventures in Self-Expression. During the rule of the military ruler, General Zia ul-Haq (1979-88), A. K. Brohi became the chief spokesman of a new ruling elite which promoted a profane consonance between science and the Qur’an. Many conferences were held for this purpose and official media promoted these activities. Sometimes called the mid-night advisor, A. K. Brohi was the intellectual behind the General whose rule was abruptly terminated in a fatal airplane crash in 1988.