Raoof Hasan

Nawaz Sharif’s appearance before the Joint Investigation Tribunal (JIT) is being dubbed as an historic event. Bear with me, my friends, I need to understand this. Is it historic that the prime minister is an accused criminal having looted billions from the state exchequer for his personal gain during his various stints in power? Or, […]

Where we stand today in the progression of our history, we are neither at liberty to take a step forward to embrace our destiny, nor can we take a step back because it is constrained by the chains of slavery that we have so assiduously entangled ourselves in. With half-wits and rank pigmies in charge, […]

I must concede at the outset that I am increasingly sickened at the enormous capacity for the macabre on the part of our political leaderships and their cronies and foot-soldiers. Otherwise, how would one explain the nauseating circus which is enacted with crass monotonousness outside the courtroom every time there has been a hearing? One […]

“We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass Or rats’ feet over broken glass In our dry cellar” — The Hollow Men, TS Eliot   These are strange times. There […]

Going to Kabul always bring spurts of joy, but it brings a twinge of sadness, too. After all, how long can a proud people continue battling for peace? And, how long can a caged nation remain immersed in the agonies of fratricide signifying the continuing embattlement for paltry turf and strategic ascendance? Kabul is a […]

  “When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes, the Enemy can be our own thoughts.” Joel Osteen Pakistan virtually […]

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires […]

“They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretence, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew. Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace individuals going about their business in the assurance of perfect safety, was offensive to […]

  In moving from “four legs good, two legs bad” to “four legs good, two legs better”, it has taken the Apex court in excess of a few months. And all this while the onlookers, the poor people of this country, kept hoping for the Sugarcandy Mountain – that mythical country where they would be […]

  “For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero, “On the laws” When Marcus […]