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 [...]

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By: Dr Farooq Hassan | Published: November 2, 2011 The high-level US delegation that recently visited Pakistan returned, realistically speaking, empty-handed; this is established from the simple “language” used by the Secretary of State. When asked about the success of her tour to Islamabad, during the House Foreign Relations Committee hearing, on October 28, she replied [...]

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 [...]

       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 Round Table of the 2010 Rhodes Forum on 10th October 2010 at Rhodes, Greece)   I am honored to address today this distinguished gathering [...]

Bob Herbert of the New York Times has it right: …we are still left with a disaster of a war in Afghanistan that cannot be won and that the country as a whole will not support. Winning in Afghanistan & Pakistan will require that Saudia Arabia stop using our oil dollars to fund the Taliban, [...]

Farooq Hassan has a new article: In a historical context, we have yet to conceptually realize the philosophical foundations of the 2008-2009 public affirmation of the country’s [Pakistan] judiciary. I do not recall a single modern historical precedent wherein the elected government of the day was almost swept from its incumbency by popular revolt that [...]

The Country at Stake With Reckless Leadership By Farooq Hassan Law & Int’l Affairs Professor — Harvard I have been in Cairo where I had arrived to talk to the Arab intellectuals of strategic and Islamic affairs. Regrettably then on May 27, the third major terrorist attack in Lahore occurred. Recent hostilities in the country [...]

Islam: Environmental Protection Professor Dr. Farooq Hassan∗ President Pakistan Ecology Council (Chairman’s Address to the World Civic Forum, Seoul, Korea, 6 May, 2009) I am grateful to be invited to give this year’s address on the theme of climate control and to chair the distinguished panel dealing with the topic of Climate control. I would [...]

By: DR FAROOQ HASSAN – Dr. Hassan has published an essay of interest on the Mumbai massacre and Pakistan. The mental shock on seeing the Mumbai massacre on the TV in my hotel room in Dubai was both abrupt and intense. I left soon thereafter as I was en route to performing the Hajj; but [...]