NATION
16 July 2007,
DR FAROOQ HASSAN
As the Lal Masjid offensive in Islamabad ended on July 10, it had left behind according to the Pakistani Government an estimated 88 people dead, including the deputy head of the Mosque and the military colonel who led the initial assault. The casualty figures according to the online edition of an […]
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Reported by Pakistan Family Forum
ISLAMABAD, June 28: The Supreme Court on Thursday granted bail to a ‘same-sex’ couple and suspended a verdict handed down by the Lahore High Court. The high court had declared the marriage un-Islamic and sentenced the two to three years in jail.
Accepting their appeal, a bench of the Supreme Court comprising […]
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Dr. Farooq Hasan has a new editorial essay in The Nation.
This government’s abrupt and seemingly ruthless behaviour towards the Chief Justice of Pakistan has triggered such a velocity of political agitation against the military rule as never seen in the past in Pakistan. Indeed nowhere in recent history has a third world country seen such […]
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By: Dr. Farooq Hassan ∗
President’s address to Pakistan Ecology Council
Avari Hotel, Lahore, Pakistan
3rd February, 07
In the current debate on environmental and climate changes many perspectives have been examined by concerned scholars and activists. I have already articulated at length the need for meeting the challenges that lie ahead from Islamic perspectives *1. This analysis is thus fundamentally an evaluation of the extent of this monumental problem facing mankind. Consequently, in view of the nature and extent of problems in this area, it is submitted that to obtain real progress ahead it seems necessary to work for a true and genuine international cooperation. This is particularly necessary at this juncture as the Kyoto Protocols are expected to expire in 20 *2. Appropriate thinking and its concomitant remedial steps, if any, have to be devised as such without delay. With these thoughts in mind this presentation anlyses the latest major international efforts that are in evidence on this subject.