Haleem Brohi was a prominent Pakistan

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 and journalist

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, active in the Sindhi language

Sindhi language

Sindhi is the language of the Sindh region of Pakistan that is spoken by the Sindhi people. In India, it is among 22 constitutionally recognized languages, where Sindhis are a sizeable minority. It is spoken by 53,410,910 people in Pakistan, according to the national government's Statistics Division...

. He is considered the second greatest satirist is Sindhi literature after Ali Mohammad Brohi.

Education and family

Brohi was the son of Aziz Brohi, a police officer. He graduate from the University of Sindh

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 in 1956 and completed his LLB in 1960. He was married with four daughters.

Career

In his early career, he practiced law and also served at Sindh University in various capacities. He retired from Sindh University as chief accountant in 1980.

Literary career

Brohi started writing in 1967. He published more than ten books. Amongst them were, in English: Solo Decayed, Nothing Is Particular, Nothing Is Earnest and in Sindh: Haleem Show, Orah ["Inferno"] (1975) and Hitler ji Kahani (1972), all in the early to mid 1970s.

Brohi was also instrumental in creating a Roman script for the Sindhi language, and was a regular contributor to a popular Sindhi daily.

Death

Brohi died of a heart stroke at a local hospital. He was buried in the Cantonment graveyard in Hyderabad.

Awards

In 2009, Brohi was awarded the Shah Latif Award by Sindh Chief Minister, Syed Qaim Ali Shah.