Raoof Hasan

Raoof Hasan

  • Times of discontent

    Police officers walk past the Supreme Court of Pakistan building, in Islamabad on April 6, 2022. — ReutersThe phenomenon of pain can be...

  • Times of discontent

    Times of discontent

    Police officers walk past the Supreme Court of Pakistan building, in Islamabad on April 6, 2022. — ReutersThe phenomenon of pain can be...

  • Space for change

    New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani speaks during a campaign event in the Bronx borough of New York City, US, August 14, 2025. —...

  • Space for change

    Space for change

    New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani speaks during a campaign event in the Bronx borough of New York City, US, August 14, 2025. —...

  • Need to carve new pathways

    US President Donald Trump speaks during a multilateral meeting with leaders of Muslim countries, including PM Shehbaz Sharif, during the 80th United...

  • Need to carve new pathways

    Need to carve new pathways

    US President Donald Trump speaks during a multilateral meeting with leaders of Muslim countries, including PM Shehbaz Sharif, during the 80th United...

  • Inciteful fault lines Candid corner

    A representational image of shipping containers at a port. — AFP/File“And there assume some other horrible form,/ Which might deprive your...

  • A farce of a deal

    Palestinians search for survivors in the rubble of a building in the Nuseirat refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip on October 31, 2023, amid...

  • That one dream, that one step

    The representational image displays a protest by Pakistani journalists for their safety in 2014. — AFP/File It is said that the distance between...

  • The shell that wouldn’t break

    The representational image shows a person holding a Pakistani flag. — Reuters/FileThere are many things that, if indulged in repeatedly, become a...

  • Breaking the logjam

    The representational image shows money being delivered as bribery. — AFP/FileThe existent atmosphere is so laden with pain and anguish that one is...

  • The power of rationality

    Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah addressing a crowd.— The News/File If one were to choose a sequence of essentials for a nation to prosper, I...

  • Shrinking spaces and more

    TTAP leaders address the press conference in Islamabad, on July 24, 2025. — YouTube/Geo News/ScreengrabWe live in an age and time when the canvas...

  • Garlands of light

    The representational image shows a shopkeeper selling flags of political parties at his shop before the February 8 general elections in Karachi on...

  • In truth resides the future

    The representational image shows a person holding a Pakistani flag. — Reuters/FileThere comes a time when one feels frozen inside, unable to think...

  • A season among seasons

    Imran Khan leaves after appearing before a court. — AFP/FileHuman history is replete with periods in which certain powers ascended and then melted...

  • Adrift the waves of time

    Representational image signifying restrictions on media. — The News/File“My ancestors -/For they were unaware of manacles and fetters./ The...

  • Debris of systemic collapse

    Debris of systemic collapse

    National Assembly of Pakistan. — AFP/FileUnsustainable that our national political environment has been since times far gone, I could never...

  • Debris of systemic collapse

    Debris of systemic collapse

    National Assembly of Pakistan. — AFP/FileUnsustainable that our national political environment has been since times far gone, I could never...

  • The strutting emperors: Candid corner

    The world stage has been littered with strutting of emperors, some with a shade of rooting in history, with others patently self-proclaimed....