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Raoof HasanDaily Times |
An old saying has it that “when you dance with the devil, the devil doesn’t change. The devil changes you.” In this country, it is almost...
Confronted with a myriad of problems, despondency often sets in to dull the spirit and dilute the passion. But with the first drop of rain wetting a...
Debates have often raged in the country regarding the reasons why Pakistani institutions crumble so abominably under pressure that they stop...
The induction of a new government that is not equipped with the legitimacy to come up with any medium- or long-term strategy to rid the country of its...
Tampering with the election process has been a favourite pastime of the power-wielders in the country. It is sardonically stated that the only free...
“I am tired, tired of being enclosed here. I am wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly through...
It is only the symbol of a ‘bat’, but it already has a million stories associated with it. The more the orchestrators try to oust it from...
The Peshawar High Court’s decision to restore to the PTI its election symbol of bat has cast a spell of shock upon the entire government machinery...
It is seldom that one witnesses a state and its institutions so wholesomely and maniacally driven by the task of eliminating the legacy of one...
It was Shakespeare who said in ‘The Tempest’: “Those are pearls that were his eyes”. So powerful was the impact of the line that T S Eliot...
Much that it may be denied in every conceivable way, the Sunday night virtual jalsa of the PTI has jolted the power-wielders out of their contrived...
We are living through times when a foreboding often casts its shadow that whatever we were taught through our evolving years, whatever we learnt...
As time crawls to February 8, the date the ECP has designated for holding the next general elections in the country, the related uncertainties are...
The qualities associated with the legend of the phoenix are symptomatic of our times in an uncanny manner: that each phoenix lives for 500 years and...
I have often written about the degenerative trends which seem to be swamping society and the destructive impact the phenomenon will generate for all...
There comes a time when one develops a feeling of rusting: that one’s voice is lost, and energy level depleting; that one’s words are losing their...
Given the paucity of ideas and strategy to deal with the induction of the Taliban government in Afghanistan in the aftermath of the US withdrawal, one...
These days, the apparent vast canvass of subjects that one thinks one can write about is, in fact, a mere mirage as all of them melt into just one...
Transition is a strange phenomenon that impacts life in a million ways. Most importantly, it comes laden with dreams that tomorrow shall erase the...
Injustice, tyranny, torture, oppression, repression, fascism, and such other lethal implements, when perpetrated, do not carry the face of the...
“Out of the huts of history’s shame, I rise./ Up from the past that’s rooted in pain, I rise./ I am a black ocean, leaping and wide,/ Welling...
“In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love. In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile....
Highlighting the growing trust deficit between the state and the people, I tweeted a few days ago: “A country unwilling to engage with itself to...
With the release of the follow-up report by The Intercept regarding the alleged sale of arms to Ukraine due to economic contingencies and US pressure,...
Some among us are sensitive to even the slightest deviation from the course of truth and justice while others show a penchant to gel with the way...
Much may already have happened, but much more, tragically, continues to happen. It may not be difficult to fathom the direction the steps currently...