According to the Dept of Veterans Affairs, as of mid-March, there were 866,000 veterans’ disability claims, 606,000 of which were more than 125 days old. http://www.vba.va.gov/REPORTS/mmwr/index.asp Let’s assume that most of our vets ARE honorable and ARE trustworthy! For my first time, I’ve created a formal petition to the Obama administration, using the White House’s [...]

Tags: afghanistan, Agent Orange, disability, Gulf War Syndrome, iraq, PTSD, VA, veteran

By: Farooq Hassan January 24th, 2012 “The Supreme Court (SC) heard Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in response to a notice for contempt on January 19, who told the seven-member bench that while he had the highest regard for it, but could not comply with its wishes. The PM said that he had not intended [...]

Tags: constitution, money laudering, Pakistan, president, supreme court

UN Role in International Population Policy, Reproductive and Sexual Health and Reproductive Rights: Evaluation of Declining Birthrates (Synopsis of the plenary address presented in the World Congress of Families, Moscow Summit on Demographic Declines, 2011) Ambassador Professor Dr. Farooq Hassan Barrister at Law, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court Pakistan, (QC), Attorney at Law, (US), Special UN [...]

Dr. Farooq Hassan Barrister at Law, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court Pakistan, (QC), Attorney at Law,   (US), Special UN Ambassador for Family, Professor, Harvard (Synopsis of address given at the International Conference on Family as a Value: In Religion, Tradition And Modernity” on 26-27 November 2010. Antalya/TURKEY organized for the Journalists and Writers Foundation by [...]

By: Dr. Farooq Hassan It is an end of an Era: No words can really describe the impact of the sad news on the morning of August 26th, 2009 of the passing away of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. President Obama described him as the greatest Senator of our times. That he was certainly, but to [...]

For the first time in his professional career, Constitutional Scholar Laurence Tribe – previously on various short-lists of potential Supreme Court nominees – proposed a Constitutional Amendment. He felt it was necessary in order to assure that traditional 18th Century constitutional civil liberties would remain protected against modern technological threats. On March 26, 1991, Professor [...]

Tags: civil liberties, due process, free press, freedom of speech, technological threats, unreasonable search, unreasonable seizuers

By: Dr. Farooq Hassan, D.Phil.; BA (Juris),MA,M. LiTT (OXON); DCL (Columbia),DIA(Harvard); Sen.Adv.Sup.Ct. (Pakistan), Barrister at Law (UK),Attorney at Law(US). Astute analysts on Pakistan are generally astonished that despite the lapse of four months since the February 18 elections, there is no substantive change in the federal governments outlook, image or composition. Indeed even major policies, [...]

Author: Dr. Farooq Hassan* In the US right now an acute debate with single focused and one sided objective is going on about how to ensure that the president is ‘persuaded’ to have the forthcoming election fundamentally free from his personal grasp and junta’s influence. This is on account of the fact that without a [...]

On November 24th, the Wall Street Journal ran a page one story called: A Little Laptop With Big Ambitions How a Computer for the Poor Got Stomped by Tech Giants Cambridge, Mass. In 2005, Nicholas Negroponte unveiled an idea for bridging the technology divide between rich nations and the developing world. It was captivating in [...]

Author: DR FAROOQ HASSAN The general is plainly wrong when he maintains consistently that there is democracy in Pakistan! In his conception of democracy there is the consolidation of offices of the army chief and the presidency. Even more bizarre is the realisation that in any living democratic country these two offices are really powerless [...]