Posted by: Jock Gill
A great interview on NPR with Thom Friedman. Highly recommended.
Fresh Air from WHYY, September 8, 2008
Thomas Friedman is a man bent on revolution. In his new book, Hot, Flat, and Crowded, the three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist writes about the need for a green revolution — and calls upon Americans to […]

Madrid: 19 July
Dear & eminent colleagues:
I wish to bring you in picture about a truly historic meeting convened here on the invitation of the Saudi monarch. This conference had been convened for a most crucial dialogue between the three monotheistic faiths. Saudi King Abdullah appealed for “constructive dialogue” to end disputes between the world’s […]

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, […]

[Note: The author of the essay below, Thompson Buchanan, is a retired Foreign Service Officer who has been sickened by the sight of America squandering the great asset of global sympathy and cooperation following 9/11, and the lives and treasure of America through an unjustified “war of choice.” He served eight years in the Soviet […]

By: Nick Gill
I am a left-liberal Democrat. This is about my dream team. I voted for Hillary Clinton in the Massachusetts Democratic primary. I believed she was a serious, tough, capable, intelligent politician who could do a good job as President. I also liked Barack Obama, but I felt he might be too inexperienced for […]

BY: Dr. Farooq Hassan
Last Monday I had the privilege of addressing Harvard Law School’s International Law intelligentsia with scholars composed of countries from Brazil to Kenya and Australia to India to analyse the current ‘constitutional’ situation in Pakistan. My view is that the ethos of the current state of political crisis in Pakistan emanates from […]

By: DR FAROOQ HASSAN
It was a great honour for me to address the National Press Club ‘Newsmakers Event’ on January 24, 2008 in Washington DC. In my Keynote address on the current political crisis in Pakistan, I emphasised that Musharraf’s rule in Pakistan and supremacy of law are two contradictory concepts. His rule is backed […]

The Nation, 26 November, 2007
DR. FAROOQ HASSAN
While arguing major constitutional cases against Musharraf’s regime in the Supreme Court of Pakistan since 2000 I realised that his only agenda was ‘himself’. Both the coups of October 12, 1999 and that of November 3, 2007 were staged to save his army chief’s job. […]

By: DR FAROOQ HASSAN
August Monday, 20, 2007
When Pakistan’s history is being written objectively there is little doubt that it would signify one of the most remorseless power tussles between the civilian and military rulers on the one hand, and the secular and religious forces on the other.
As such as the country reaches it 60th birthday […]

By: Dr. Farooq Hassan
Recently, when Negroponte was in Islamabad, he is reported to have said that the matter of uniform was to be decided by General Musharraf. If for no other reason as a constitutionalist and as a lawyer I was disappointed by these sentiments as they signalled that in US policy analysis one person’s […]